Acosta: "The WH made 18 attempts to call GA sec of state"

[Leghorn21]

The WH made 18 attempts to call GA sec of state
Raffensperger before Trump’s attempted shakedown over
the phone Saturday, a GA state official confirms to CNN

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I expect that they knew what was incoming

and got all their legal ducks in a row (including rehearsing the responses) before finally accepting that last call.

[Botany]

10. And a tape machine ready to go to before taking the call too.

n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Probably not using "tape" anymore

But some kind of digital recording.

[Harker]

15. I still use the word "footage."

I finally quit "dialing" phone numbers, though.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Oh I still use "tape"

"dial", "drop a dime", "double-nickel bridge" (for a local bridge here that no longer has a 10 cent toll but a $4 toll now)...

Long time habits are hard to break.

ETA - I still tease my niece about the time when she was little and my mother had asked her to hand her a "tablet" and my niece handed her my old ipad, and my mom had to show her what a paper "tablet" looked like.

[Harker]

35. And I thought I'd always be

hep...

Oh, well.

[CaptainTruth]

39. That one bugs me too. It's a curse.

Blame it on years in the audio biz, being an engineer, & being a musician & studio owner, it bugs me when folks call a "recording" a "tape."

I have plenty of legacy studio tapes, reel-to-reel analog multitrack, ADAT 8 track digital, DAT stereo digital, heck even some old 4 track analog cassettes of things I recorded with friends in high school. Those are all tapes. Things I record in the studio on hard disk or on location using a portable solid state recorder or even the things I record on my cell phone are not tapes, there's no tape involved in the process, they're recordings.

To me it's like saying "I'm riding my bicycle to the store" when you're actually driving your car to the store. Both are vehicles, but a bicycle is not a car.

Thank you for attending my TED talk.

[Ilsa]

2. Just like that R governor who had "Hail to the Chief" as his ringtone

for when killa con would call. He got a call in the middle of signing election certification (?) and put his phone on mute.

No one wants to talk to you, Donald!

[catbyte]

32. I think it was Ducey of Arizona.

[duforsure]

3. After a investigation takes place,

I believe we'll learn he's called many others trying to shake them down to help him, including politicians, judges, Supreme Court Justices, people in the DOJ, and many others. I would be shocked if trump doesn't have others compromised forcing them for help, including Cruz.

[gab13by13]

5. Yes but, this can't be swept under the rug.

A comprehensive investigation needs to be had. What Trump is doing is called a coup and we need to hold him and his enablers accountable or this will happen again.

[unblock]

6. I'm sure he also called putin for advice. And ukraine, just because.

[luvtheGWN]

21. A friend who is a retired state department employee

told me she is quite sure similar calls were made to the other states tRump lost. And in fact Michigan reps even made a special trip to the White House for a shakedown.

[machoneman]

26. Yes, I'm sure he did. He invited the MI folks to the WH solely to avoid the trap he walked into now.

Also, only he could record his conversation while in the WH as all visitors are scanned and searched before seeing his Eminence. They could not record but he did for sure.

[Blue Owl]

4. Desperate Donny's a seditious stalker

[Bettie]

7. Entirely off topic but when I see your little avatar

it reminds me of grocery shopping as a child with both of my grandmothers at Red Owl grocery store.

Makes me smile every time.

Oh, and Donny is a giant walking dumpster fire.

[bluestarone]

18. SAME HERE!

Good oh RED OWL! (North Dakota here)

[Bettie]

37. Wisconsin for me

but, I loved going to the store with both of my grandmas.

And that little owl always makes me smile.

[Blue Owl]

41. Right on!

I remember that store as a kid and always loved the logo! Hence the avatar...

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Yup, stalker is the word that comes to mind

[exboyfil]

8. I would have liked a bug when George talked with Jeb

about Florida. The Bush's have much smarter people around them so it would never get out, but I bet it would curl the hair.

[yellowcanine]

9. Clearly entrapment by Raffensperger.

[berni_mccoy]

14. Lol your reply title got me to click on it

And as I was doing it I was thinking this better be sarcasm!

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Trump assumed all repubs would go along.

Turns out they don't want to be in on the cover up.
How do those bus tires feel, Donald?

[wnylib]

38. They know what gang he runs with and

they don't want to be sucked into membership.

[berni_mccoy]

16. Confirms conspiracy and premeditation.

Everyone on Trump’s side of the call committed a crime as a conspiracy.

[SheltieLover]

19. This!👆

They are desperate to avoid prosecution.

They would not want to give up the gravy train anyway, but the prospect of facing the music for treason & grifting is likely not pleasant.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. ★★★★

There has to be some example as a detriment to future administrations that think anything the boss wants is OK.

[Tommymac]

20. Paul only committed betrayal THREE times.

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Trump Wins again.

[Nonhlanhla]

43. FIY

Not that it’s relevant to the thread, but Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus once. It was the Apostle Peter who denied him 3 times.

Sorry, nerd here! 😊

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. They really wanted ask him to do a little favour & tell him he got a fine little state dere

Dom tRump wuz just tryin' tuh protect Brad from "big risks" of bad legal & political stuff that might, you know, happen.

[Chipper Chat]

23. Just STOP for a second.....

What if Gore had called the SOS of Tennessee in December of 2000 and asked the same thing.
The Republicans would have gone ballistic. And also most American democrats.

[ananda]

24. The question is -- why wait till now?

???

[OhNo-Really]

31. Maybe the "Contribute to legal defense grift slowing down? 🤢🤮

[ScratchCat]

34. My theory

The timing of this call and the 12 Republican Senators "announcement" is no coincidence. Trump probably told them he had several states ready to announce they were going to "audit" or "review" the results and those idiots believed him, thinking they had "cover" for the stupid "10 day emergency audit" where they could then argue that the certification had to be stopped on 01/06 because States were going to change their results. So he then starts calling Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania SOS's.

[brooklynite]

25. I thought the White House Switchboard was able to track down anyone...

I wonder if this was Trump placing his own calls on his cell phone.

[BarbD]

28. Hats off to Raffensperger for doing his sworn duty.

A clear contrast to the treason of the republicans who are defying their sworn oath to uphold the Constitution.

[yuiyoshida]

29. constant cravings?

[OhNo-Really]

30. Mens Rea -Love When Trump says "I don't want to know names"

Seeking “plausible denial ability”

Intent noted!

Imo making the call with intent to discredit certification IS the crime

The call dialogue satisfy Mens Rea

“the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty".

Trump’s #decision to speak directly to the #Georgia SoS etc, & to dominate even allude to charging GA SOS criminally in the 1 hr call IS the #crime.

Trump can also sue his lawyers for incompetence, true?

[Danascot]

33. Have we heard anything about the GA AG considering charges?

DiaperDon committed a serious and obvious violation of GA election law. We should be putting pressure on Chris Carr GA AG to pursue charges.

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

36. KICK

[colsohlibgal]

42. Just A Dumb Spoiled Sociopath

I hope he rots in jail. I hope he gets charged the minute Joe takes over....just over two weeks to go now.

I wouldn’t be shocked if his trophy wife dumps him by February.

Only Hitler and a handful of other despots challenge his level of Sociopathy but he is by a wide margin the dumbest.