Republicans Furious About Trump’s Recorded Call To Georgia Secretary Of State

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January 4, 2021, 11:40 am

Donald Trump’s hour-long call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was something to behold after the full audio was released on Sunday, with many Democrats calling for criminal investigations into what was discussed. Perhaps even better, however, has been the response from the right, which has mostly been anger over the fact that the audio was released at all.

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Right-wing podcaster and failed Republican Party candidate Jesse Kelly went as far as calling it a violation of the man code.

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We were unable to verify if this code applies to leaking audio of powerful men conspiring to or potentially actively breaking the law.

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Come on Beth, you wouldn’t understand. We have secret handshakes and everything

— paintblljnkie (@paintblljnkie) January 4, 2021

“You don’t repeat things said to you privately.”

There were like seven people on that call and probably more in the room on both ends.

— X Æ A-12 gon’ give it to ya (@Rodel_the_Great) January 4, 2021

He is the president, this isn’t your drunk buddy on a 2am voicemail. It is literally the president trying to force a Secretary of State to “find” votes….when ppl start to argue the ethics of posting not the substance of the call, a huge problem exists.

— Nicks2244 (@brnichols8744) January 4, 2021

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Also, there were like 8 people, some govt counsel, on the call so it wasn’t a private conversation.

— The DAM Archivist, MA, MLIS, CA (@thedamarchivist) January 4, 2021

In that situation I’d punt, rather than snatch.

— Bill C (@s0l_uk) January 4, 2021

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That was in response to conservative Evangelical pundit Erick Erickson saying that Georgia Republicans he’s talked to are “critical” of Raffensperger for leaking the call recording ahead of Tuesday’s runoff elections.

“‘Just one more f–king day,’ complained one who said had it dropped Monday after or during the rally it wouldn’t be as bad,” Erickson wrote.

The funny thing is that Trump discloses private conversations all the time. He disclosed *this* conversation via tweet.

— Rob (@GuyDebored) January 4, 2021

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Pundits have been speculating for several weeks now that Trump’s attacks on the U.S. election system could undermine right-wing trust in voting to the point that it could hurt them in the runoffs and hand the Senate to the Democrats. As Trump has ignored these warnings, significant numbers of his supporters have indeed declared their intentions to boycott the Georgia elections because they believe it will be rigged.

Raffensperger, meanwhile, has faced a smear campaign and allegedly received death threats over his refusal to magically invent the results Trump and supporters wanted out of the investigations into their election fraud claims. Many are therefore not surprised that he released the audio of the call regardless of how it impacts Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who have also smeared the Georgia secretary of state.

Both Republicans running for Senate demanded the SOS’s resignation and smeared his professional reputation for their own political ends, so I can understand his not giving two craps about their timeline. https://t.co/DEB62SsEeP

— Stephen Robinson (@SER1897) January 4, 2021

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Others, however, doubt that the audio was leaked by Raffensperger at all. Keith Olbermann believes that since Trump sounded clearest out of all the voices, it was likely recorded at the White House.

Nobody has yet claimed official credit for the leak.

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*First Published: January 4, 2021, 11:40 am