In testimony before the House select committee investigating January 6, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger explains why former President Trump lost the state's 16 electoral votes in the 2020 election. #january6 #CNN #News
The most frightening thing about all this is: millions of people still support the man. He sounds like a rambling, madman. This country has a big problem.
To me that means they are okay with people's lives being threatened especially children if they would have threatened my child, well I think we all know
I will NEVER understand why millions of people that still support trump, who is a "KNOWN lifetime pathologically liar"? Did any of them ever actually delve into trump's past history over the last 40 years? trump's own daughter, Ivanka, has said "My father often has trouble dealing with reality and likes to make up things" and "My father believes strongly in revenge, if he feels betrayed his revenge is tenfold and last a lifetime".
i hear they are serving raison berry bran flakes at the snack bar comrade, 2 more weeks and another booster and they will get trump for sure! the science says so!
"violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" Asimov, book was Foundation. You can spread whatever "hearsay" you want.. but this is on trump and certain members of the GOP, i do not blame the GOP as a whole here.. i know its a "group within a group"
I’m a prodigal Republican- can’t vote crazy. I’m so happy to gain respect back for Republicans speaking out against these crimes attacking our leaders and Constitution
Thank God we survived this narcissistic, egomaniacal, con-man. He can never hold any office ever again. He's totally unhinged. Thank you, Brad Raffensperger for your honesty.
@@samphonesavanh9212 No, I'm not a Republicon. So far, everyone that has testified has been Republicans from Trump's inner circle. It's nice to see the real Republicans and the Trumpists can't even agree on facts. No wonder we've regressed as a country over the previous 5 years. We can't even agree that facts are facts. Smh.
@@WarrenPeace007 100% serious. I can only imagine what MAGAs would do if Biden or a Democrat pulled any one of Trump's blatant lies, stunts, crimes or corruption. They're trying to get Biden impeached over imaginary crimes now. Blindly devoted Trump sycophants were brainwashed by a simpleton with simple lies. Pitiful.
@@WarrenPeace007 Dead serious. How many tens of thousands of Americans didn't survive? "Covid is a Democratic hoax that will magically disappear in April," remember? "5 cases will soon be zero cases?" "We're rounding the corner?" "It is what it is?" 😳💀 But but but, Hunter? 🤨🙄
Mr Raffensperger you did your country proud by keeping your cool and not caving in to what must have been enormous pressure from this egomaniacal lunatic! This is a sad footnote in our history, and a president who drove people to insurrection where people died cannot be allowed to walk away from this, he has to face justice!
Since that day, Raffensberger has been very vocal that Georgia needed new voting laws to ensure secure Elections. He did the right thing one day in November 2020, but since then, he's been a simp for trump
The most alarming part of this mess was watching GOP reps and leaders fold a few days later. The GOP no longer exists. It's Dems, Indies, 3rd party candidates, and fascists.
Just listening to Trump talk makes any sane person wonder how anyone in the slightest bit of in their right mind's could listen to and take seriously anything Donald Trump says is more detached from reality than Trump himself is.
Agree. I want "45" to have a fair trial on all charges, then I expect he will be convicted; and, if so, he should face the maximum penalty. Jailed pending any/all appeals.
As an African who extremely understand & have experienced rigging of elections my whole 29 years life, when I first heard about allegations of the USA rigging elections I laughed. The world would come to a standstill if that happened 😅 However if you understand the nature & mentality of "successful" business people, this shouldn't surprise you. They'll do anything to win or salvage a costly outcome that might lead to them losing.
How pathetic he’s pressuring an election official to lie in exchange for praise. Disgusting behaviour and he’s got away all his life behaving like this
@@richardpaquette8429 it is NOT the American way. Americans are valiant, truthful and patriotic. I’m a immigrant living in the USA, the USA is the greatest democracy on earth…Trump is an anomaly.
over 300 investigations in GA alone??? think of all the money - tax payer money - spent on his fragile, narcissistic ego??? he should pay back every cent spent on his big lie!
These are the same people that pushed the Trump, Russia collusion, (two and a half years, 40 million dollars later) only to find out by special prosecutor Durham the whole thing was a hoax, and they knew it was a hoax, the Christopher Steele dossier was paid for by the DNC, "Fool you once shame on them, fool you twice shame on you."
My suspicion is the dead voters all voted for Trump. Nationally all improperly cast ballots (and there were truly very few) were cast for Trump. Who are the real cheaters?
@@houndmother2398 You mean like 40 million dollar two and a half year, Democrat fabricated Trump Russian collusion investigation? Do you think that should payed that back?
This guy was Not an inabler. He was Sec of St in GA, and drumph called him and put all kinds of pressure on him to "find" me 11780 votes. Brad stayed put. Upstanding man.
@@jeannineharrelson1201 He wasn't an enabler in the vote count of 2020 and deserves respect for that integrity HOWEVER he voted for him twice and can be expected to vote for him again. He and other Georgia Republicans could have made an alternate choice known and led Georgia's Republican voters -- and others that pay attention to them -- to not nominate "45" again. They didn't. Any Republican that doesn't speak out against "45" being president again is not a "leader"; they're all enablers and/or followers.
@@charlesljones2454 I absolutely agree….. we are experiencing the last push and scream of a dying generation…… they are willing to throw the baby and the bath water away. The scary part is they have a lot of people who will vote against the red white and blue to preserve their tribalism.
@@stevepackard8542 All politicians lie, unfortunately. But NOBODY, I mean NOBODY is in the league of liars with Trump. Trump lied over 30,000X (confirmed by fact-checkers) during his joke of a time in office. So HE is the biggest liar (certainly not Biden). So Steve ... WAKE UP!
People in power and congress are afraid of Trump. Look how Pence and Barr followed him way beyond the point of reason. Hundreds of thousands of Americans perished due to Covid. Dishonesty and incompetence is his mantra.
I knew he was guilty long before these hearings. I knew in the moment. Look at the character we're dealing with here: only an idiot would believe his bullshit.
Brad Raffensperger at 1:27 ... _"28,000 Georgians skipped the presidential race."_ Anyone with a brain can understand that means 28,000 Republicans in Georgia chose not to vote for Trump!
Lady Ruby and her daughter should definitely sue. They'd have a good case for slander and libel (since Trump lied about her in both spoken and written form) and defamation. There might be a case for reckless endangerment.
He wanted to use his second term to find a way to destroy the constitution so he could stay in power for life. He wanted to try to duplicate Putin's playbook of incremental changes in the system to continue to allow him to stay around, ever increasing his blatant authoritarianism.
The more you hear things like this, the more you realise that Trump was by far the worst US President in living memory. Such an embarrassment to the hard-working, generally law abiding and decent citizens of the United States of America.
@@jordondarke1884 it's up to the Republicans to come up with a better candidate, otherwise I reckon you are looking at America's first ever black female President in Kamala Harris. I would have said Biden for re-election but apparently he's fallen off his bike.
@@christopherlane5238 yeah, but unfortunately irs the American people who have had to endure him. Although across here in the UK, we aren't really any better off with Doris Johnson as our Prime Minister.😳😬😖☹
There is nothing criminal about asking the Attorney General if they followed state law (which they didn't by the way) ballots with no chain of custody are not allowed to be counted but he counted them anyway.
@@wkahn1005 The only fools that love trump are his delusional cult members. I look forward to the day that trump takes the "jim jones exit strategy " and convinces his cult to do the same.
@@crosstiewalker803 " *The 2016 presidential election was illegitimate* " Was what we were told for 6 years behind this bogus Russia collusion hoax. NOW were supposed to be lectured to by these hypocrite puppets and their one sided SHAM of a show trial !?!? What a JOKE 🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎
*Trump Sr, Trump Jr, Steve Bannon , Eastwood and Rudy should all be charged with treason, nothing else for leading of the rioters going against the constitution of the USA that our countries founders such as president George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln had warned Americans during their terms about. The narcissist actions of these men mentioned leading to the attack on our great capitol posing threats amongst the elected officials was clearly wrong, Garland needs to do his job and get the wheels turning in the DOJ* .
@@CC-qb6pf Everybody should contact the DOJ directly. The Dept. of Justice maintains a secure website. It takes 3-5 minutes to visit their Contact page; the online form needs only name and email, and if you take a screen print you will have a record with a timestamp.
@@CC-qb6pf If the DOJ refuses to take action and charge Trump then the citizens need to take charge and take care of Trump and his cronies in politics and the citizens that tried to help him with his coup attempt.
Trump was about two minutes away from saying that he hopes that Raspfenberger doesn't find a "horse's head in his bed." Trump totally sounds like he's shaking that man down!😬
Well done to the committee and those testifying, so well layed out and presented! It's just baffling how all the criminals thought they could get away with it!!! I really hope they are held to account.
@@scottshannon2335 it’s called a coupe… he wished he was as smart as El Duce, or Lenin… Donny snd his parade of goons attempted to rape democracy just in case you were curious what “it was”
Do you honestly believe they will send Trump to jail?? Law makers Maybe.. Trump, pfffft they'll make him pay a fine and send him on his way. EVEN IF THEY DO send Trump to jail.. it ain't going to be where they put Epstein. It's going to be some kind of resort with 5 star meals, pool and minigolf and a prying board so he can roll that walrus ass out of bed in the morning.
I watched the entire hearings so far and must say that I am impressed with what I'm seeing out of all members of the Jan 6th hearings. I know why Kevin McCarthy wanted Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Marjory Toadstool Greene, and Lauren Boebert on the committee, he wanted them to upset and mess up the hearings and try to save T=Rump, thankfully Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi didn't fall for it and we Americans got an ace team.
He's acting decent in this particular situation. That doesn't mean he isn't cynical like any other politician. Talking about his integrity is a bit.... inappropriate
If there isn't integrity then the system falls apart. The mere fact that Trump replaced the US postmaster with his man to slow the mail is enough to indict him for election meddling itself. Makes me ask why the Dems didn't go after him as well.
It's so gratifying to listen to how Trump is getting increasingly angry and desperate. The recording of that phone call will live forever and be the never ending source of laughter around the world.
@@oakinwol It's a clue to pick better candidates. HRC vs DJT...? - Give us a break. I voted Green. And I'll do it again if I think the parties are pushing scandal trolls. I would have voted for McCain before voting for HRC.
This man is a throwback Republican when both parties never agreed but did what they thought was best for the country over what was best for the party. I pray for this man and his family, I am sure he had gotted a lot of death threats.
@AMERICAN IN EXILE Taking home white house documents. Millions of dollars spent of tax payers money at mar a lago golf outings. 250 million dollars conned from supporters . For fake election fraud .
Casler added that Trump does it and he almost sits there unaware of it, and one time he saw Ivanka have to kind of go whisper in his ear and then Keith came and took him offstage. "One time there was the word 'arbitrage' on a cue card and he started screaming that the script department was setting him up. 'You're setting me up!' And he just freaked out and then very loudly evacuated his bowels and you could smell it. And the guy who was holding the boom mic was tearing up. And that's where the nickname the 'shitshow' came from. That was the crew nickname for Celebrity Apprentice," he added.
@@fromsurrey9538 but as far as republicans go compared to the other republican piranhas I see across all forms of media, Mr Raffensperger appears to be one with morals
I agree he respected the law and did his job and stood up to a bully. But I really wish he didn’t dodge Rep. Schiff’s question at 9:25. Why couldn’t he just admit that Trump indeed asked him to commit a crime?
@@charissecrenshaw1577 listen Trump is still very powerful. His life is already being threatened. He has to think of his family's safety too. And indeed he is still a republican. I am sure Gov Kemp and him lost friends, constituents, business partners, and supporters over what they did. That's why I understood when they came back and put those ridiculous voting laws into place. I didn't like that at all but I understood.
For the life of me I will never understand how people thought a reality TV " Star ", Who willingly paints himself Orange mind you. With 6 bankruptcies and zero understanding of the geo political world we live in would some how make the United States better by electing him. Never underestimate the power of stupidity I suppose.
Just a reminder that the people that thought trump would make a good president watched the apprentice and thought he and his sons were good businessesmen. 🤷♂️
@@merch_and_meme 4 years of nepotism leads to this. Cause meet Effect. When you praise over Trump not understanding that he inherited Obamas economy. You cry over Biden not understanding he inherited Trumps economy. Why is it Trumpers dont understand this .. 🤷♂ Imagine showing up to work and the boss is upset at you because the guy before you did nothing for 4 years. 🤡
That phone call is absolutely hilarious and scary at the same time it's hilarious cause trump is upset cause he lost fair and square but scary af that he was literally trying to muscle in and try to steal a state that he clearly lost
Sadly very true because of pathological liar Donald. No wonder he was fined $2 million for misuse of his foundation….he wants to break all of the rules….
Look up the court filings made by the woman whom he and his buddy "Jeff" raped when she was a virgen of 16. It's chilling! This man is an animal. (She withdrew the suit when he became pres.)
Seemingly; Trump blamed people, tried to overthrow an American election by getting a lot of people involved, and even tried to overthrow America's democracy, but how insane is that. To make matters worse, the Republican party are willing to stand by his side, and sweep this matter under the rug. Even though Trump had the legal grounds to be empeached both times, the Republican party blocked him from being empeached!
@@scottgodkins2017 he's a stable genius ,remember ? And he went to Wharton School of Business too he turned a small loan of $1m from his dad into a vast fortune.
@@bonnieshall654 There is a God and God has seen all the evil that trump did. People need to open their eyes to his deception and thirst for power not everyone is blind to what this man did to our country but He will pay whether here or before almighty God.
This select committee is actually doing the Republican Party a huge favour (yes I am a Brit). It's showing that there are straight, honest, decent, honourable people still in there despite the Trump ghastliness. Good. Every good government needs a good opposition. Trump wasn't, isn't, either.
How is it helping the GOP, if they ousted Liz Cheney, a republican that’s working on the committee, for pointing out the big lie? The majority of republicans continue supporting trump.
Unfortunately some of those same people are trying and succeeding to have election laws changed so that what trump was asking for would be legal in the future. There are vanishingly few honest Republicans.
Well, the committee certainly isn't going to trot out the large and growing number of Republicans who are worshipping at the feet of Trump and spreading his misinformation.
@Donald Thorpe You might want to learn how to spell the word cast, first of all. And I totally respect someone's vote, no matter who they voted for. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican, I try to vote for the person who's most qualified for the office they're running for and that seems to have the best ideas. What I don't respect is someone who, if he genuinely loved this country, would have accepted the results of the election in 2020 and conceded, as Al Gore did in 2000. You may remember Al Gore? If there's anyone who would have had ample reason to run around the country screaming he got cheated, it was him. There's a right way and a wrong way to accept an election loss, and for the first time in American history, we saw the wrong way.
Trump's comments are not surprising. What IS surprising is that so many americans still believe and support him. I guess that's consistent, after all so many oppose workable gun control.
It's literally that if you divide America there are 2 1/4s that do not vote. The Liberal youth who dont feel represented and the conservative right wing fascist white supremacists. But when you get nazis to vote trump you get teenagers to vote democrat.
I am with you on that 100%. There are the doubting Thomas's that will always dig holes. The point is they've got proof positive. But you just can't change stupid. Sad as it is people follow the crap and the liars and the cheaters and the bigots and the racist, truth doesn't matter to some as long as they don't have to be proven that they're wrong.
@@susanbuck4897 Well you can not become one unless one invites you.. then you have to go through rituals. (Blood oath) They use secred handshakes and signs. They infiltrated most of covernments and if you are not within their club they don't want you to go anywere in life. That's why many sell their soul to this mafia like organisation. Now they act opposition to controle every upcoming narrative possible. Trump,Biden,Putin, Xiping what ever... Again they act opposition to play out regular people against each other. (Ordo ab chao)They say "our covernment" or " we the people" or "our democracy"... and so on. It's double speech. The goal is their 'New World Order' but actually it kind of failed already because January 6th was not meant to happen. Not that it was a good thing but a stupid mistake by Trump and others included just perfect for that old demonic plan to fail. First will be last I guess.
Brad Ratffensperger is a man of outstanding moral principles. I'm grateful for the courage he showed in not succumbing to Trump's lying and battering. Thank you for your service.
It is a crime that they needed a person of high moral character and education like Raffensperger forced to track down and verify every single voter. Turnout: Voter registration for the 2020 general elections ended on October 5 in Georgia, with a final total of 7,233,584 active registered voters. I'd be bored to tears.
@@alunevans2377 He refused to change the election results even though Trump threatened he and his lawyer with being charged with Federal crimes if they didn't go along with his crazy theories on dead people voting and shredded ballots. I listened to the entire "Perfect phone call" Trump calls it and I swear Raffensperger and attorney were cracking up, trying hard not to laugh at Trump with his crazy theories. I also wonder why the original poster spelt his name as Rat... strange.
To this day, I'll still play this whole 1+ hour long call in the background to entertain myself hearing Trump pathetically beg and threaten and achieve nothing in the end 😂
His whole Presidency was like that... A big Nothing burger... Oh unless you talk about his accomplishments in creating a larger deficit, mishandling of COVID response, and bringing about inflation...
To survive all the pressure from the corrupt president , the media , and the general public which want to know the truth , this man has balls of steel , he is a good person , a good republican , and above all , a good American , country over party.
Right, few and far between. Usually, Republican = no balls. Hell, the one with the most balls is female, what a patriot. She essentially gave up her seat for this; Woman of the Decade.
Trump is a bellend. But what is far worse, is the fact millions of American citizens have voted for him, and if given the opportunity, will do so again. Go, USA.
all true. note to foreign leaders: this is the cheat code Kim, Erdogan, Putin figured out in 2016. BUT realize that everything trump is saying is what HE THINKS will move public servants. "you'll be praised ... bc that's what it's about"
