Trump, Giuliani, AZ GOP chair pressured Maricopa cty to stop counting ballots.

[triron]

Link to tweet

And what are the consequences? Anyone?

[Takket]

1. is it illegal to pressure election officals to stop counting votes?

it is...

and that being said, is there a Federal investigation into this?

[triron]

2. I want to know that as well. There was that sternly worded letter and Garland's speech (Republicans

are shivering?).

[cstanleytech]

9. Depends on the pressure. Asking for them to stop is one thing and that might slide by legally but

if it involved any threats or promises as way of a bribe then that is definitely criminal.

[triron]

3. How is this different than what happened in Georgia?

[Botany]

4. Trump is now on tape asking people in Georgia and Arizona to fix the election for him.

I bet he also did this in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania too.

Lock him up.

[cstanleytech]

10. Correct me if I am wrong but he is only on tape asking for them to find the votes right? If so

then proving that to be criminal is unlikely to happen as there is a difference between asking them to find the such votes and asking them to commit a crime and falsify the votes somehow.
I wish the tape had him asking to do that though as I would love to see Trump going to prison and never being set free.

[Botany]

11. At the end of the day Trump was asking the Sec. of State in GA & AZ to change the vote counts in ...

... their states so the loser could be declared the winner. aka Rig the outcome of the election. I'm
willing to bet he did the same thing in WI, MI, PA, & NV.

just my

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. He was the president (sic) at the time, so his words and actions weighed more heavily

than if you or I did the same thing. Remember what Michael Cohen said: "He doesn't ask for what he wants you to do, but you know anyhow." It's like a Mafia don -- a stupid Mafia don, accepted -- his actions and words convey what he wants you to do, without leaving fingerprints. In this case he didn't directly say to the SoS, "Make it so I win." He said, "Find me 11,780 votes," which coincidentally is the number he needed to reverse the Georgia results.

He didn't realize that he was dealing with a man of integrity; in Trumpworld, I doubt such a person exists.

[cstanleytech]

13. Look, I am not disagreeing I am simply trying to point out that while we might believe

he committed a crime by saying that getting a conviction in a court of law is highly unlikely to happen.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. I completely agree with you. A jury conviction is practically impossible, especially in Georgia

where a large number of the jury pool to select from probably have T***** bumperstickers and believe he is the true president. Also, they are absolutely convinced that Secretary of State Raffensperger is part of the conspiracy to steal the election.

[triron]

17. Depends on how the jury is selected.

[abqtommy]

5. I'm not sure if The Truth Will Set You Free, but it can lead to indictments. Let's make it so.

[sciencescience]

6. These three are some truly heinous people

[BSdetect]

7. Astonishing they even try that. Fuck them all

[ace3csusm]

8. So this is the fraud they have been talking about...

I guess we did stop the steal, and they left crumbs for someone to follow to arrest them...What are we waiting for Democrats start yelling at the top of your lungs...Had this been flipped around Fox News and Republican would be raising hell every second ... committees would be being formed , investigators, FBI would have been sent in it would be absolute pandemonium...What are we waiting for next they might actually accomplish the steal ...

[Grown2Hate]

14. I know it's besides the point (kind of), but Biden led in AZ from Election Night forward. The more

the absentee/vote-by-mail vote was being counted, the closer Trump got, never QUITE overtaking Biden. So it's bizarre on it's face that they'd want the counting to STOP anyhow (the details are behind a paywall for me, but if it's as the headline states, these morons are even stupider than I thought).

[triron]

15. Interestig point. Now it seems a little confusing why this might happen.