(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump Is On Multiple Phone Call Tapes Trying To Overturn GA Election Results in 2020. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-21 From The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s interview with Emily Kohrs, the The Fulton County special grand jury foreperson: Kohrs said the special grand jury heard tape recordings of phone conversations that have already been made public, such as Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021, call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the president asked Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to swing the election. But there are recordings of other calls Trump made that the special grand jury heard and which have yet to be made public, Kohrs said. “We heard a lot of recordings of President Trump on the phone,” she said, declining to give specifics. “It is amazing how many hours of footage you can find of that man on the phone. … Some of these that were privately recorded by people or recorded by a staffer.” Emphasis is mine. Whatever you may think of Ms. Kohrs going out and giving these details about the special grand jury investigation, I think the fact that Trump has been recorded multiple times on the phone is very significant. And this shouldn’t be surprising, but it still is. I’ll explain why. I should have realized that if Trump didn’t get what he wanted from Raffensperger he would have contacted every other Republican in GA to overturn the election results. I assumed that there must have been other phone calls. However, I didn’t think that other Republican officials in GA would want to protect themselves like Raffensperger and have the presence of mind to tape the phone calls. Remember, Republicans are excellent at covering for Trump, even at their own damn expense. They have to protect Trump because he controls the lunatic voters in the Republican base. Political power is all, and if maintaining power means being sucked into Trump’s criminality, so be it. Any Republican having the forethought to tape their phone calls with Trump are not being loyal, at least to Trump. And I shouldn’t be surprised that Trump would continue to make calls and be taped. A sane person who even thought they were being taped on the phone would stop the call at once. But Trump has gotten away with his crimes for so long that he feels invunerable. Trump can literally commit his crimes out in the open, and the justice system goes, “Well, did he have criminal intent when he did X? If not, ain’t nothing we can do about it!” Don’t look at me that way. You know this is true. I’ve been watching legal analysts talk about this shit for several years now. The justice system requires some kind of damn Vulcan mind meld to indict Trump. Anyway, you can see why I find all this surprising. And don’t take my word for it. Here is Ms. Kohrs on the investigation: When asked how she felt about what happened when all was said and done, Kohrs described the experience as “really cool.” “But it shouldn’t have needed to happen,” she said. “It shouldn’t have needed to happen and it shouldn’t have been so complicated and it just was complicated. It just had all these extra alleys and all these extra twists and turns that it didn’t need.” The more the special grand jury delved into its investigation, she said, “I realized there was way too much going on and this should not have been this insane.” And there you go. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/21/2154294/-Trump-Is-On-Multiple-Phone-Call-Tapes-Trying-To-Overturn-GA-Election-Results-in-2020 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/