The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta was ousted from his role by the White House because he refused to investigate bogus allegations of election fraud pushed by President Trump in Georgia, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of Georgia Byung Jin “BJay” Pak abruptly announced his departure Monday, as […] More
President Donald Trump pressured a top Georgia state election investigator, who was in charge of looking into allegations of vote irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, to “find the fraud” in a late December phone call, according to a report by the Washington Post’s Amy Gardner. The Post withheld the name of the Georgia official, […] More
Just a week ago, news broke that Donald Trump had called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and attempted to threaten him into “finding” enough votes to “recalculate” the results of the 2020 election. That blatant attempt at election interference was enough to generate calls for Trump to be be impeached, again—days before he went out and incited […] More
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. […] More
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This years presidential election featured a daunting map for Donald Trump. In 2016, he won traditionally Democratic states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by the slimmest of margins. He also had so contend with the leftward lean of Republican strongholds like Georgia and Arizona. In the end, Trump lost all 5 of those states. In […] More
Lt. Governor John Fetterman said that Trump tried the same kind of illegal election interference calls in Pennsylvania that he used in Georgia. Video: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said Trump also tried to commit election fraud in Pennsylvania using the same type of phone calls that he used in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/kGJboCPCUd — Sarah Reese Jones […] More
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That tens of thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots. STERLING’S EXPLANATION: The actual number of ballots cast by ineligible voters is minuscule, and nowhere near enough to change the outcome of the election. Mr. Sterling also addressed more specific claims about ineligible voters: Mr. Trump said that thousands of people voted despite not […] More
Georgia election officials said that Trump and Republicans are intentionally misleading the American people and debunked his election fraud lies. Gabriel Sterling went through Trump’s claims point by point and debunked them: Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling surgically destroys Trump’s election fraud claims at #pressconference pic.twitter.com/ODD91vdPxY — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 4, 2021 Sterling […] More
President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Georgia’s top elections official into stealing the state for him also served as a helpful illustration of the sort of disinformation that the President regularly consumes — and creates. Look no further than Trump’s obsession with Ruby Freeman, who was a private individual until a few weeks ago, when […] More
The Washington Post has just released the full one-hour audio recording of Donald Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger. Also on the call on Trump’s behalf were chief of staff Mark Meadows and prominent conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell. Over the course of the rambling call, Trump appears to threaten or extort Raffensberger and state […] More
Neal Katyal called for the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation because Trump’s pressuring of Georgia election officials is a crime. Video: Neal Katyal says that a criminal offense may have been committed on the #TrumpTapes and the DOJ needs to open an investigation if not now, then on January 20 after Biden […] More
