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I don’t agree. The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him, and he caused an attack on the US Congress. People are actually

I don’t agree. The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him, and he caused an attack on the US Congress. People are actually dead because of the things he said — inciting an overthrow of the government. Even our allied governments are saying he caused the riots. You can’t say the entire world is wrong, every single human being is deep state.

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
It is not possible to downvote this comment and also be a good human being. Any downvoter of this should be sick with themselves over such shameful behavior. The best I could hope is that it’s some sick-minded person downvoting just to troll. The idea that a right-minded HN viewer seriously down votes this is absolutely unconscionable and completely beyond the pale. It’s literally the same as downvoting a comment that says “racist murder is wrong.” Literally!
djsumdog 6y ago
> The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him Did you listen to the entire phone conversation and not the 4 minute clip? That's quite not what happened. Trump laid out all his claims and was asking them to accept investigating anything that cloud make up his very narrow margin. Another fun fact about that call, it was a Settlement Call. That was literally protected by attorney/client privileged. Barnes, a civil rights attorney who does federal cases, and who is currently contracted by the Trump team, talks about it here(starting at 54:49): https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276 https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276
- tptacek 6y ago
  First, that's clearly not what happened; here's the transcript of the whole call, not a "4 minute clip": https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-... Second, as you've now been informed (and could have verified with a simple Google search), the call was not privileged, nor was it "confidential" in the sense we ordinarily mean. Disclosing it was perfectly lawful.

mlthoughts2018 6y ago

It is not possible to downvote this comment and also be a good human being. Any downvoter of this should be sick with themselves over such shameful behavior. The best I could hope is that it’s some sick-minded person downvoting just to troll. The idea that a right-minded HN viewer seriously down votes this is absolutely unconscionable and completely beyond the pale. It’s literally the same as downvoting a comment that says “racist murder is wrong.” Literally!

djsumdog 6y ago

> The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him Did you listen to the entire phone conversation and not the 4 minute clip? That's quite not what happened. Trump laid out all his claims and was asking them to accept investigating anything that cloud make up his very narrow margin. Another fun fact about that call, it was a Settlement Call. That was literally protected by attorney/client privileged. Barnes, a civil rights attorney who does federal cases, and who is currently contracted by the Trump team, talks about it here(starting at 54:49): https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276 https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276

tptacek 6y ago
First, that's clearly not what happened; here's the transcript of the whole call, not a "4 minute clip": https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-... Second, as you've now been informed (and could have verified with a simple Google search), the call was not privileged, nor was it "confidential" in the sense we ordinarily mean. Disclosing it was perfectly lawful.