Put aside the blatant threats, patent coercion and unmitigated falsehoods rife in Donald Trump’s telephone rant to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the call was a criminal act, an outright solicitation of election fraud that must not go unpunished.
Instructing Mr. Raffensperger to “find” the exact number of votes needed by Trump to overcome the margin of victory established by President-Elect Biden and to change the result by claiming to have “recalculated” the vote, clearly constitutes criminal misconduct under state and federal law. Proof of the crime is established beyond a reasonable doubt by Mr. Trump in his own recorded voice.
State authorities and the soon to be appointed Attorney General should present the evidence to Grand Juries. Resulting indictments will be triable after Trump leaves office and can no longer claim presidential immunity.
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