FlashPoints: There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger
I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just Donald Trump that\u2019s in trouble now that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate interference in the 2020 election. The Republicans, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, were playing fast and loose with accusations of voter fraud. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Raffensperger gets cuffed. And, if there is justice, he should be breaking rocks in a chain gang.\n\nThere were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger \u2014 twenty-nine \u2014 not one. Raffensperger released one, where he looks like a man for all seasons. I\u2019d like to get the recordings of those other calls. And I\u2019m sure the grand jury will want to hear them too. I don\u2019t know how many were recorded, but I want to know what\u2019s in those other calls, and to what extent Raffensperger and his office were playing games with Trump.\n\n\u201cLook, all I want to do is this; I just want to find 11,780 votes.\u201d \u2014 Donald Trump speaking to Brad Raffensperger in a call recorded on January 2, 2021\n\nUnderstand, the guy that Trump is speaking to, Brad Raffensperger, there\u2019s probably no one in the country who is more vicious when it comes to false, crazy, wild, and unsupported accusations of voter fraud by Democrats than Brad Raffensperger\u2026 He really is the Purge\u2019n General of Georgia. I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is no hero.\n\nThis is the guy that wrongly removed 198,000 legitimate voters from the voter rolls of Georgia. We have their names and addresses. I did the investigation, the ACLU put out my report, Black Voters Matter went to federal court to get the people put back on before the election. And if you watched Democracy Now!, you\u2019d know that I was, literally, physically chasing Brad Raffensperger all over the Capitol to get him to go over that list, as a federal court ordered him to.\n\nWhen you talk about Jim Crow tactics, this guy is the best in the nation \u2014 and I don\u2019t mean that as a compliment, I mean it as a warning. I think Trump was shocked that he didn\u2019t get the cooperation from Raffensperger. And he didn\u2019t get it for a simple reason; Raffensperger mucked with the numbers as much as he could before the election, but when the count came through, he wasn\u2019t going to serve five to life for Donald Trump.