FlashPoints: There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger

I don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s 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’t be surprised if
Raffensperger gets cuffed. And, if there is justice, he should be
breaking rocks in a chain gang. There were 29 phone calls between
Trump and Raffensperger — twenty-nine — not one. Raffensperger
released one, where he looks like a man for all seasons. I’d like
to get the recordings of those other calls. And I’m sure the grand
jury will want to hear them too. I don’t know how many were
recorded, but I want to know what’s in those other calls, and to
what extent Raffensperger and his office were playing games with
Trump. “Look, all I want to do is this; I just want to find 11,780
votes.” — Donald Trump speaking to Brad Raffensperger in a call
recorded on January 2, 2021 Understand, the guy that Trump is
speaking to, Brad Raffensperger, there’s 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… He really is the Purge’n General of Georgia. I’ve
said it before and I’ll say it again: Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger is no hero. This 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’d 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. When you talk
about Jim Crow tactics, this guy is the best in the nation — and I
don’t mean that as a compliment, I mean it as a warning. I think
Trump was shocked that he didn’t get the cooperation from
Raffensperger. And he didn’t 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’t going to
serve five to life for Donald Trump.