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StarfishSaver

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Sat Jan 9, 2021, 01:33 PM Jan 2021

WaPo: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call

President Trump urged Georgia’s lead elections investigator to “find the fraud” in a lengthy December phone call, saying the official would be a “national hero,” according to an individual familiar with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the conversation.
Trump placed the call to the investigations chief for the Georgia secretary of state’s office shortly before Christmas — while the individual was leading an inquiry into allegations of ballot fraud in Cobb County, in the suburbs of Atlanta, according to people familiar with the episode. ‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction
By Amy Gardner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-call-georgia-investigator/2021/01/09/7a55c7fa-51cf-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

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WaPo: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call (Original Post) StarfishSaver Jan 2021 OP
Christ, it keeps getting worse for the trumpster. Hoyt Jan 2021 #1
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