Of course they need to say this now. After they win, they will backstab Trump just like McConnell. McConnell holds the most power in the Senate. If he is okay with certifying the results, then it doesn't matter. He will allow some Republicans to vote against it to put up a show of defiance, but at the end of the day, nothing will change.
If it was not him, then who? It's probably him or his staff. Who else would have something to gain from leaking the call to the media? He just had a disagreement with the president and refused to answer questions. He had lawyers on standby during the call. Obviously he wasn't comfortable talking to Trump one on one.
"He's coming up short on the election, he won't be re-elected, and I know that he's not pleased with how the results went in other states," Raffensperger told NBC. "I'm very confident in the results we have here in Georgia. And that's the cold hard truth."
Ultimately, the call happened after White House staff pushed for it, said Raffensperger. While he said he didn't personally record the call and doesn't know who released it, he said he is glad it was made public after Trump's tweet mischaracterizing the conversation.
"You can't keep on taking shots from people and people keep putting out stuff that's not true," he said. "And we're gonna respond, we're going to respond forcefully sometimes with the facts. If people can't handle the facts, I'm sorry, but those are the facts.
This liar now claims that he didn't record and leak Trump's phone call. If it was not him, then who? Who else would be so sore about being called out for election fraud?
On launching an investigation by the State Election Board, Raffensperger said there “may be a conflict of interest” because of his conversation with the president, and another conversation he said Trump had with his office’s chief investigator following the completion of the signature match audit in Cobb County, which the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said uncovered "no fraudulent absentee ballots."
He also said that Trump's call to him makes it even harder for him to launch an investigation into the election because there would be a conflict of interest now.
"He did most of the talking. We did most of the listening but I did want to make my points that the data that he has is just plain wrong," Raffensperger said of the extraordinary call during an exclusive interview with ABC News
"Did you consider it a lawful request when the president asked you to find the votes?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"I'm not a lawyer. All I know is that we're gonna follow the law, follow the process. Truth matters, and we've been fighting these rumors for the last two months," the secretary replied.
"We have to follow the process, follow the law. Everything we've done for the last 12 months follows the constitution of the state of Georgia, follows the United States Constitution, follows state law."
Raffensperger said that since the general election, he and his office have "been fighting a rumor Whac-A-Mole" daily, but that hasn’t stopped the president from continuing to spread them.
"It was pretty obvious very early on that we debunked every one of those theories that had been out there, but President Trump continues to believe them," he said.
Don't expect this guy to help Trump. If anything, he should be recalled because he turned out to be a RINO and not the MAGA candidate he pretended to be in 2018. He lied to voters and is now smugly backstabbing our president.
Hours after Trump called on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to resign, the governor stepped in front of a podium to respond and called it a distraction.
Kemp also had some strong language for Giuliani.
Kemp said his focus is not on any tweets from the president, but instead on the Covid crisis, the surge in the number of hospitalizations and distributing the vaccine.
“I got to stay focused on the issues of the day in Georgia, not what somebody’s tweeting or doing in some committee meeting in the Georgia state capitol,” Kemp said.
Kemp said Giuliani’s criticism of the GBI’s work is unfounded.
“What do you say about the president’s attorney calling the work of the GBI a joke? Well that’s a joke. He doesn’t know the work of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations very well,” Kemp said.
A provision slipped into the more than 5,590-page spending bill allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Labor Department to import more foreign labor competition against Americans at their discretion.
Specifically, the bill gives DHS the ability to “increase the total number” of H-2B foreign visa workers who can be brought into the U.S. to take blue-collar, nonagricultural jobs that would otherwise go to working class Americans.
DHS Secretaries over the last four years have repeatedly allowed businesses to import more H-2B foreign visa workers above the annual cap of 66,000. Continuation of the policy would come as 24.5 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. About 17.8 million of those are jobless.
The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, the meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019 study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds.
Those traitors in Congress who overwhelmingly supported this bill have betrayed Americans yet again.
Removing them from office is the highest priority. The legal consequences will come later.