Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) has started the first step’s in a probe of then President Trump’s efforts to get officials from that state , including himself to change election vote total’s in one way or another….Any actual criminal charges would come from the Georgia Attorney General’s office…
This is separate from a possible criminal investigation by the Georgia , Fulton County DA’s office also in to Trump efforts overturn the actual vote there….
Trump is also being investigated by a DA’s grand jury in Manhattan and the Attorney General’s office of New York State in a civil case so connected to organisation and taxes…..
The list of legal cases against Donald Trump grows….
The Georgia secretary of state’s office is investigating former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in the Peach State, which included a phone call he placed to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in early January.
Walter Jones, a spokesman for the office, confirmed the probe in a Monday statement and described it as “fact-finding and administrative.”
“The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints it receives. The investigations are fact-finding and administrative in nature,” Jones said. “Any further legal efforts will be left to the Attorney General.”
The investigation is likely to focus in part on a Jan. 2 phone call in which Trump pressed Raffensberger to “find” the votes necessary to overturn his electoral loss in Georgia and issued veiled threats.
“The ballots are corrupt, and they’re brand new, and they don’t have seals, and there’s a whole thing with the ballots. But the ballots are corrupt. And you are going to find that they are — which is totally illegal — it is more illegal for you than it is for them because, you know, what they did and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer,” Trump said during the hourlong phone call.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state,” he continued.
Trump in the months following the election falsely claimed that he won Georgia, despite numerous recounts showing that President Biden narrowly won the state….
BTW?
Ex-President Donald Trump endorsed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s primary rival, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), on Monday morning in his crusade for revenge against Republicans who refused to steal the 2020 election for him….
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