https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/04/donald-trump-georgia-votes-joe-biden-brad-raffensperger-senate-covid-coronavirus-us-politics-live

“If President Trump wouldn’t have tweeted out anything and would’ve stayed silent, we would’ve stayed silent as well,” Raffensperger said. “If you’re going to put out stuff that we don’t believe is true, then we will respond in kind.” 

“A day after the call, Trump said in a tweet that Raffensperger was “unwilling, or unable, to answer questions” about the president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the November election.”

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A Republican bid to deny Biden’s victory is another worrying Trumpist disinformation ploy

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-made-up-conspiracy

Jonathan Rauch does an excellent job of calling out the GOP challenge of the Electoral College results for what it really is: A Made Up Conspiracy.

“Above all, the Republicans’ challenge is part of an information-warfare campaign. They are using a classic propaganda tactic that might be called “conspiracy bootstrapping.” First, you introduce a false idea, spreading it by every available means. Then, once people are talking about it, and some believe it, you cite its prevalence as evidence that it might be true—an epistemic sleight-of-hand by which propaganda validates itself.”

If you are unable to view the link, I will cut and paste the entire piece.

Source: American Thinker.

Interesting turn of events. If it is true that the phone call was a “settlement discussion,” then leaking the recording to the press was illegal.

I would guess, too, that if the phone call was a “settlement discussion,” then the allegation Trump committed extortion is without merit.

Title 18 Section 875 of the U.S. Code: “Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/01/politics/romney-slams-vaccine-plan/index.html

I guess it is not all on the states despite accusations from the administration.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

“Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government…”

 
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Source: American Thinker.

You can’t say there is no evidence of election fraud.

The writers of this piece are both members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. They were among a group of legislators who examined official state election data and found that more votes were cast in Pennsylvania than the number of voters who voted.

Source: Ted Cruz.

The proposal to appoint an Electoral Commission to investigate election fraud sounds reasonable to me. It is simply not practical to pretend or proceed as if the 2020 election was flawless.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/532366-11-senate-republicans-say-they-will-object-to-electoral-college-results-on

There is not a shred of evidence of fraud. The best efforts of major law firms followed by loonies Powell, Wood and Giuliani could not convince 50+ courts that the evidence was even worthy. The Constitutional Hail Mary is not based on our Constitution, but rather legal pretzels that convince the ignorant and exploited by the right wing intelligentsia.

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