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Bob Bauer, a senior legal advisor to the Biden/Harris team has issued a statement reacting to the release of an audiotape of Donald Trump attempting to shake down the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 more votes for the 2016 and 2020 Popular Vote Loser that would allow Individual One to prevail in that state.
"We now have irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind a state's lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in its place. It captures the whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump's assault on American democracy."
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, at a rally for the two Democratic Senate Candidates in Georgia, said Trump's phone call was:
“The voice of desperation — most certainly that...And it was a bald, baldfaced, bold abuse of power by the President of the United States."
Vice President-Elect Harris and Mr. Bauer are right. What the Chief Executive Demagogue-Aspiring Duce is doing and his Trump Zone enablers are doing is an abuse of power and is an assault on Democracy.
It is definitely impeachable (he obviously did not learn the lessons from the Ukraine Call) and is probably criminal. Self-serving Republican leadership in Congress should finally grow spines and attempt to make Trump resign before he does more damage to the country.
People should wonder how many other Republicans in other swing states Trump is calling with this pitch?
Please click here to read the transcript and/or listen to the phone call.
Among the other reactions that have been published to this shakedown call.
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer:
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1345810744412139521
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin:
https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1345844110339559430
Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake:
https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/1345880719617232896
Democratic House Representative Adam Schiff:
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1345807237256626176
Republican House Representative Adam Kinzinger:
https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1345828522254880770
No statements from major Republican leaders Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell.
It is time for the love of country to find its way back to the hearts of those Republicans that have enabled or been seduced by Trumpism.
It is time to shun the Trumpist Black Shirts (the true believers and opportunists) and defeat them in Georgia on Tuesday and in future elections.
Consign them to the dustbin of history where they belong but never forget them or what they did to destroy this country and tear the people apart.
Remember them as a warning lesson for when the next Trump wannabe surfaces.
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