President Donald Trump warned Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr not to rally other Republican officials against a long-shot Texas lawsuit seeking to toss out the state’s election results, according to several people with direct knowledge of the conversation.
The roughly 15-minute phone call late Tuesday came shortly before U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue issued a joint statement saying they “fully support” the improbable lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject election results in Georgia and three other battleground states that Trump lost.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
I'm just a little surprised that he made the phone call himself. Normally he tries to keep his fingerprints off his mob activity.
Earlier in the day, Carr’s office called the lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong.”
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A person on the call between Trump and Carr described it as cordial. Trump told Carr that he’s “heard great things” about him but that he’s picked up word that Carr was calling other attorneys general and urging them to stand against the Texas challenge. Carr told him that wasn’t true.
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The two men spoke at the urging of Perdue, who along with Loeffler also received calls from Trump about Carr’s opposition to the lawsuit, according to three Republican officials, two of whom described Trump as “furious” in his call with Loeffler over the attorney general’s stance.
Of course. Take it out on the woman.
The president dialed up Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday and demanded during a lengthy phone call that he summon state lawmakers to the Capitol for a special session to overturn his defeat.
At his Valdosta rally that evening, Trump said he was “ashamed” of the Republican he endorsed in 2018 and urged U.S. Rep. Doug Collins to challenge him in a 2022 primary.
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Trump, meanwhile, has also sought to reverse his defeat outside the legal system, including by encouraging Georgia lawmakers to demand a special session of the Republican-controlled Legislature to grant the state’s 16 electoral votes to him.
A push by four Georgia Senate Republicans to petition Kemp to call the session went nowhere. But 16 state senators — about half the GOP caucus — endorsed the Texas lawsuit filed by Paxton, who is battling whistleblower allegations that he engaged in bribery.
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Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said the conspiracy theories in the lawsuit “are false and irresponsible.”
“Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to,” she said. “That’s because it didn’t happen.”
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