I expected a lot of things as we turned the corner into 2021 and we enter what appears to be (and, if there's any remote sense in the world, should be) the last few weeks of The Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's stranglehold on the country. With the Georgia Senate runoff elections just a couple days away it should be clear that eyes would focus on that and whether Democratic candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will defeat interim Senator Kelly Loffler and Senator David Perdue (respectively) due to a mix of strong turnout (which appeared to happy early in this runoff) and whether Repubs would boycott claiming its rigged (a possibility I don't think is all that likely since Repubs tend to always vote and have for decades). Then, a day after the runoffs Congress will hold a joint session where electors votes are counted and Joe Biden will finally win the 2020 Presidential election. While this should be something we normally don't pay attention to because of how routine it is, the Mad Fuhrer's legal team keeps refusing to throw in the towel means this is still an issue. However, on Sunday January 3, 2021 the Washington Post reported something that comes truly out of left field.
Yes, I'm talking about the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State that lasted an hour and had electoral vote winner Donny badgering, threatening, and pleading with the Georgia SOS to find 11,870 votes (one more than the amount he lost to Biden by). This has pretty much shocked people who aren't drinking the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's non carbonated soft drink mix (with added water that's likely from a place similar to Flint, MI) but, even when just focusing on the main clip that got leaked there's some simple things we can take from this.
First, I think it's pretty apparent that Donny violated both Federal and GA State election laws with even the excerpt that got the most mileage. Within one segment Donny implied that Repub voters in Georgia might not vote because Donny didn't win the Presidential election and that both the Secretary of State and his legal counsel could face charges. At one point he even tried to claim that he won because his rallies were bigger (somehow overlooking the fact that not everyone at said rally is a GA voter [some may be too young, others may come from a neighboring state] and that attending a rally isn't the same as casting a ballot) than Biden's (who rallies were kept small due to COVID protocols and not wanting people to get sick)., This is obviously an attempt to threaten or otherwise influence in some way a state official to change the result of an election.
Now, in any other times, a President who said this shit and got caught would likely face immediate removal procedure under the 25th Amendment. At the very least this is impeachable and, even at this late date, steps would be taken. For better or worse, that is unlikely to happen in part because he only has three weeks left in office (provided the Repubs' coup attempt on the 6th isn't successful) and it seems easier to wait it out. However, there are demands of Federal investigations into Donny and his minions over this call so time weill tell how this goes.
Also, this was a violation of GA election laws which means it is feasible that the Mad Fuhrer would be arrested if he ever sets foot in Georgis. While this is a feasible step, the state is run by Repubs (even though both the Secretary of State and the Governor remain on Donny's shit list) and are unlikely to take that step to ensure things are fair.
So what now? Hard to say. While it may be unlikely that this gets Donny out of office prematurely it does show that he is committing acts that should be investigated and may be continuing to commit crimes. Regardless, this adds another log onto the fire of things he and his minions might maybe sort of get jailed for in the long run.
Time will tell.
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