And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

President @realDonaldTrump has filed two lawsuits - federal and state - against @GaSecofState. The telephone conference call @GaSecofState secretly recorded was a “confidential settlement discussion” of that litigation, which is still pending.

— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) January 3, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/did-trump-record-raffensperger-call/

I mean...it certainly sounded to me like the recording was made in the same room as Trump. I assumed it was one of his people who leaked the tape, but how many of his people does he really surround himself with while making felonious calls?

I'm surprised Trump's not said it was a fake recording tbh

This is from 51mins 40secs in to the call. Donald Trump farts then says, “excuse me”. pic.twitter.com/P4d0Y6gUpW

— Evan Rowe (@rowebocop) January 4, 2021

Nowadays we call that "releasing the kraken."

The uncontrollable flatulence of these gnarled fossils is just about the only thing that makes them relatably human.

trump's bottomless need to be unconditionally adored is very human too. something you're supposed to grow out of around age 2, but still.

i'm surprised and impressed at how far he's going with the flimsy "voter fraud" case. really something.

you'd be bottomless too after one like that

I was working on a fart joke myself but you beat me to it.

Come on, Trump never says "excuse me" when he farts. Like his umbrellas, he just leaves them there, semi-afloat, expecting someone else to deal with it.

not one I'm proud of if it's any consolation Tom

<FARTS>

"We've found the votes!"

"Trump's Philtrum" says that if it makes zero sense (leaking this call himself??) he's probably responsible

The tape pretty clearly came from Raffensperger's office. I can't remember which outlet reported this yesterday, but Raffensperger's people taped it and he told them he wouldn't release it unless Trump came at him again publicly. Which of course Trump did, because he can't help himself.

xpost I mean, it does kinda make sense as filtered through his diseased brain. It's proof of criminal obstruction on the part of the GA SoS!!! So, yeah, I can imagine his dumbfuck ass leaking it.

Oh, it was in this NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia.html

Officials in the secretary of state’s office recorded Saturday’s call, and Mr. Raffensperger told his advisers that he did not want to release a transcript or a recording unless the president attacked state officials or misrepresented what had been discussed, according to a person familiar with his direction.

As expected, that attack came in a tweet on Sunday morning, in which Mr. Trump claimed that Mr. Raffensperger “was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!”

In a response on Twitter, Mr. Raffensperger wrote: “Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying is not true. The truth will come out.” The recording of the call was made public several hours later.

Given Trump's malicious idiocy you'd have to be a fool not to record him.

Trump claims to have recorded the call but when he played back the recording, it was side 1 of a-ha's Hunting High and Low

It started on Saturday when Trump and his team reached out to talk to Raffensperger, who, according to an adviser, felt he would be unethically pressured by the president. Raffensperger had been here before: In November he accused Trump ally and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham of improperly exhorting him to meddle in the election to help Trump win Georgia. Graham later denied it.

So why not record the call with the president, Raffensperger’s advisers thought, if nothing else for fact-checking purposes. “This is a man who has a history of reinventing history as it occurs,” one of them told Playbook. “So if he’s going to try to dispute anything on the call, it’s nice to have something like this, hard evidence, to dispute whatever he’s claiming about the secretary. Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.”

gotta be scrupulously fair I didn't hear a fart in that clip

the truth will come out about that fart, which came not from Trump, but from the Deep State

you might call the anus the human body's Deep State.

there it is

the Deep State has been behind some explosive leaks

PUanon

the most controversial fart since Martif Pharti threw that party

was this a voice-only conference call? the idea seems quaint.

it was fart-only

Talking with Trump is always a gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01O62CDOKUE

Presidential Fart Joke at 3:33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCH3HN2S7E

So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.

Dammit I was just trying to post that

xp

The Fart Of The Deal

A+

an A+ for that?

I think it stinks

where are we at with polling? does it make any sense at all to look at the GA polls? are we back to throwing dice and appealing to the gods with sacrifices?

ossoff and warnock have edged ahead in polls, but the margin of error is thin, and I think Dems tend to underperform in GA elections compared to polling. this election is so weird though that anything could happen imo

the democrats have small leads roughly equal to how much the pollsters screwed up by, so it's a toss up.

(screwed up by in november)

also trump is going on stage tonight to call everyone running the election a criminal so you can imagine that being worth a few thousand votes.

The 538 averages look good--+2% for both Warnock and Ossoff. And yesterday can't help the two Republicans; maybe it'll depress turnout a tiny bit.

this is the one that makes me cautiously optimistic

https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/ga-sen-122/

I'll defer to caek on polling, though.

I do think the whole election fraud nonsense is going to depress republican turnout to some extent, but not convinced it will be enough.