The GOP meltdown in Georgia continues. After Georgia’s Republican attorney general skewered a doomed lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's vote, Donald Trump warned him against recruiting any other GOP officials to oppose the suit, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Shortly after mob boss Trump hopped on the horn to level threats at Attorney General Chris Carr, Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue issued a statement expressing their full support for the pardon request masquerading as a lawsuit filed by indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. As one AJC headline observed, "Texas claims sovereignty over us, and many Georgia Republicans like the idea."
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The call, which came in response to Carr dismissing Paxton's lawsuit as "constitutionally, legally and factually wrong," lasted all of 15 minutes. Trump had reportedly lit into Loeffler and Perdue over Carr's characterization of the ludicrous suit, at which point Perdue effectively sicced Trump on Carr directly. What a champ.
Trump had gotten word that Carr was lobbying other attorneys general to reject the suit, an assertion Carr denied. Seventeen Republican attorneys general have since asked to join the lawsuit, as have Trump's lawyers. The suit seeks to delay Monday's Electoral College vote for electors in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Georgia's votes have been counted and recounted three times now, and Joe Biden has won every time, surprising no one but Trump and his cultists.
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