Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

UncleScoopy

“I just want to find 11,780 votes”

“He continued to make his case in repetitive fashion, until finally, after roughly an hour, Raffensperger put an end to the conversation: ‘Thank you, President Trump, for your time.’”

36 thoughts on “Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor”

  1. Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain’s 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.
    In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave an insightful and honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to the US.
    “Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don’t say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”
    “When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don’t use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We’ve never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”
    “It’s just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he’s the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he’s brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale.”
    “And, let’s be clear. This isn’t happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you’re the most likely to die from this disease. We’re the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

    1. All very true, except that there had to be great fissures in the politics of this country for Trump to get nominated, let alone elected. The right in general, including the Republican Party, is responsible for this in my opinion, although Democratic Party fecklessness had a role to play too.

      In that way Schmidt, although speaking the truth now, reminds me a little of Captain Renault in “Casablanca”, who is shocked, shocked! to find out there is gambling at Rick’s nightclub. After all, before Obama, there was Bush the Younger, who was hardly the second coming of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

      1. Also, Schmidt was part of the team who allowed Sarah Palin on the ticket and brought her to national prominence. She was a significant bridge along the way to Trumpism.

        So yeah, I agree with much of what he’s saying now, but he shoulders some of the blame, too.

        1. Wow. Palin was red meat for the kind of people who support Trump now. No wonder Schmidt only wants to look back in time to when Obama left office.

    2. I think liberals, me included, fell so in love with the idea of a female president carrying forward the Obama White House that we ignore how bad a candidate she was. This allowed Trump to happen

      1. Oh horseshit. No one liked Hilary, except the DNC, who decided it was “her turn”. They’re not liberal by any stretch. Bernie would have crushed Trump in ’16, polls backed that up. Shit, my Republican dad preferred Bernie.

  2. With all the resources he has at his disposal the best he can ever come up with to substantiate any of his theories is “that’s what I heard.”

    1. That’s because he surrounds himself only with people who tell him what he wants to hear. So when Putin tells him that New York is full of lizard people who hate him, and he drops an A-Bomb on NY, he can rationalize it by saying “That’s what I heard.”

  3. There’s no diff between this and someone like Roseanne on Ambien, or Mark Lane, or Oliver Stone, or anyone who believes in lizard people, et al, vomiting out bogus conspiracy theories. There’s always a rabid audience of cretins who lap that stuff up. When you’ve got shit between the ears, any incoming shit just adds to the growing shitball instead of being rejected. It’s “They Live” in the real world.

    1. Help me out here, Dev J. Were any of the people you name Presidents of the United States trying to get a state Secretary of State to tamper with elections results in their favor? Because if not, i think there IS a diff. Don’t you?

      I think these people were just loons exercising their right to rave like loons. Trump has that right too, which is probably what you meant. And I am perfectly fine with you calling Trump a loon.

      But Trump IS the president, and was trying to get somebody to fake election results. Could I ask why you are trying to pretend that was not the case? Also, who do you think is dumb enough to be persuaded by your comparison? Republicans, right? Because they are the only ones I can think of. My god, do I long to sell them real estate.

      1. PS – Dev J, you had to go all the way back to Oliver Stone to find a lefty loony enough to compare to Trump?! Wow. Apparently it did not occur to you how highly that speaks for the sanity of the American left.

  4. Having read the full transcript now, not just the small audio bites, it is even clearer that Diaper Don actually believes the shit he is espousing, this will make an insanity plea more like to be accepted.

    Secondly, the enablers who are seeking to gain access to information that they cannot legally be privy too is inexcusable… “just deputise them” is contemptible.

    Respect to Brad and Ryan for just letting this moron prattle on to the point where he ostensibly commits multiple crimes, federal and state, all the while, recording it for future insurance.

    The next game we play is watch the enablers and sycophants explain this away again.

    Cheers to having the most funked up country in 2021.

    1. Nope…Trump is just a very practiced liar. Read Woodward’s book and compare what he was saying in public to what he was telling Woodward about Covid.

  5. Fake news. Listen to the whole audio in full context. They lured you into fake outrage again and this is backfiring on the SOS nowl.

    3. Fuck off, I have listened to it and it’s pretty damn clear what he’s doing to anyone not in his cult.

      Two and a half weeks and the moron is gone for good, and you idiots will have to find someone else to bend over for.

    4. What is the SOS nowl? Oh, Secretary of State. Yep, refusing to repeat and support Trump’s lies will backfire on him within the Republican Party. That’s the price he pays for having principles and being a stand-up guy. Good point, THAT GUY. Not the one you thought you were making, but a good point anyway.

      Personally, I think that whether Trump knows it or not, he is furthering the project of driving everyone who actually believes in democracy out of the Republican Party. This is because, despite gerrymandering and the Electoral College, democracy has not given the Republican Party full power to rule as they please. Therefore, democracy must be ended. No one who does not at least subconsciously desire the Republican Party to be a force for authoritarianism and tyranny is welcome in the Republican Party any more.

      THAT GUY here is trying to help with that. I wonder if he is a dupe or a hireling? Ultimately, it does not matter, of course, except he might as well get some money out of his shilling.

      1. I would phrase it another way. Trump is exposing how many people in this country prefer authoritarian rule (as long as it’s *their* rules).

        No real surprise, as authoritarian subjugation of specific populations has always been a core part of US history.

  6. I’d love to hear the excuse of ANY Republican who still refuses to hold the orange shitgibbon to account. On the other side, my respect for Raffensperger is growing in spite of myself. He may still be an asshole, but at least he’s an asshole attempting to respect the law.

      1. I read the transcript. It consists of Trump declaring wild fabrications and the Georgia officials explaining to him that they live in the real world and not in his imagination, whereupon he repeats all his imaginary arguments again until they get tired of the whole business.

          1. I doubt that anyone has tried to inject reality into a Trump cabinet meeting since 2017 at the latest. That is how you cease being a member of the Trump cabinet, or at least stop getting invited to meetings.

      2. Keep clinging. Nothing will come of this just like the weekly “we got him this time” scandals that got you all aflutter that fizzled with no explanations and you kept running back for more.

        He lives rent free in your heads and it was a pleasure watching you melt over someone having a different opinion. Now get your pussy hat ready for tomorrow.

  7. What a pathetic, sickening loser Trump is.

    He was a sore winner then in 2016, and now he’s a total sore loser.

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