"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. That was President Donald Trump's demand in a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the state in the 2020 election. Raffensperger, citing the results of numerous lawsuits and three rounds of vote counting, refused, making him one of the few Republican officials to publicly stand up to Trump's false claims of election fraud."
"Even more troubling, the prosecutor who has ties to Trump allies received a special appointment from Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate election fraud cases nationwide, according to Bloomberg Law. When the FBI raided Fulton County's main election office last week, St. Louis U.S. Attorney Thomas Albus was listed as the prosecutor who'd sought the warrant, not the U.S. attorney in Atlanta,"
President Donald Trump demanded finding "11,780 votes" in a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after Joe Biden was declared the state's winner in 2020; Raffensperger refused, citing lawsuits and multiple counts. The Trump administration later placed a prosecutor with ties to Trump allies into Georgia via a special appointment from Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate election fraud nationwide. The FBI raid on Fulton County's main election office listed St. Louis U.S. Attorney Thomas Albus as the prosecutor who sought the warrant rather than the Atlanta U.S. attorney. The appointment raises concerns about manufactured prosecutions, a prosecutorial theory casting Trump as a fraud victim, and risks to election integrity in 2026 and 2028. The appointment resembles a prior controversial U.S. attorney appointment that produced indictments which were ultimately dismissed.
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