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A lot of you are going to just breeze past this story without reading it, so let me just break down how absolutely deranged these actions by the president are. He's openly engaging in actual election fraud.

 the big flashing red flag here is the president threatening Georgia's secretary of state if he doesn't overturn his defeat in that state.
after Raffensperger (a Republican btw) calls Trump's assertions "debunked conspiracy theories," the president urges him "find 11,780 votes" and suggests "there's nothing wrong with saying" that he's "recalculated."
The president genuinely sounds like he's trying to talk his way out of prison.
Here is the president vaguely threatening Georgia officials that if they don't "find" these ballots that don't exist, they might be "subject to criminal liability." Hard to believe this isn't completely illegal.
"you would be respected, really respected, if this (election fraud and trampling of our democracy) can be straightened out before the election." I added the part in parentheses.
When we say the president comes off like a mob boss, we're not joking.
He personally insults this official repeatedly, calls him a "child," "schmuck", and "either dishonest or incompetent" for not believing there was widespread fraud in Atlanta. Do Republicans seriously have no problem with this? My guess is yes.
Raffensberger: “Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, that — people can say anything.”

Trump: "Oh this isn’t social media. This is Trump media. It’s not social media. It’s really not. It’s not social media. I don’t care about social media. I couldn’t care less.”
"But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?" This is actually coming out of the mouth of the POTUS.
Mark Meadows can't lose his job fast enough.
"I know this phone call is going nowhere."

Worth remembering that Georgia's secretary of state is not only a Republican, but also someone who has been complicit in widespread voter suppression in that state for years. And he's not even close to touching this attempted coup.
I genuinely don't believe it's solely out of some moral obligation on their part. I just think they recognize it will fail and they could face actual legal consequences and prison time if they try to help the president defraud the election. Plain and simple.
I hope this has been a helpful overview, but there's a lot more I didn't highlight. Full article is right here: https://t.co/NduB9ZVrrf
And yes, there's a tape. Lordy, there's a tape.
So, what do we do about this? In a world where consequences matter, the president would be impeached for this and unanimously condemned by both parties. That way, he wouldn't be able to run for office again.
Also, and I don't say this lightly, but if you actually listen to the audio, he seriously sounds like he's on some kind of drug.
Completely mind-melting that he's been accusing Democrats for months that they "found boxes of ballots" and now he's telling Georgia's secretary of state to find boxes of ballots for him or else.
https://t.co/mahnz6h7Io
https://t.co/LCETESdTdj

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