The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Dec. 30. President Trump tweeted that day that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp should resign.
“Kemp should resign,” President Trump said in a tweet early on the 30th, “He’s an obstructionist who refuses to acknowledge that we won in Georgia. We won big in Georgia! Wins in other swing states too.” Trump also urged people to tune in to the election hearings in Atlanta that morning.
At 9 a.m. on the 30th, the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss the state’s election laws and their past and present impact on the current election cycle, and to consider reports from the Dec. 3 election hearings.
In recent weeks, Trump’s legal team has continued to call on the Georgia General Assembly to appoint Republican electors, while presenting legislators with evidence of election fraud in multiple hearings.
But Georgia Governor Kemp, a Republican, said he would not allow the state legislature to hold election fraud hearings. The state senator said they do not need Kemp’s approval to hold the hearings or not.
On Dec. 3, the Joe State Senate Oversight Committee and Judiciary Committee held two separate election hearings. The Judiciary Committee chairman issued a 15-page report stating that the state’s general election results were not credible and called for the annulment of the state’s government-certified election results.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a press conference Dec. 29 that the recent Cobb County ballot signature audit process found no fraudulent absentee ballots and that previous statewide hand and machine recounts had confirmed that the initial count was correct.
But Laffensperger did not mention Fulton County in the above press conference. The county is the most populous county in Georgia, and its county seat is Atlanta, Georgia’s largest city.
Trump’s legal team presented a surveillance video at the Dec. 3 election hearing showing scenes of election fraud at the State Farm Arena polling center in Fulton County on the evening of Nov. 3.
Several election officials let all supervisors and other counters leave that night, then yanked out boxes of ballots and began counting them without citizen scrutiny.
According to Georgia Republican supervisors, they were denied direct oversight of the counting process while the ballots were being counted, there were problems with the words of Fulton County election officials, and officials misled them on the night of Nov. 3 by saying the count was over, when in fact those officials counted the ballots for several hours after they left.
Following the Dec. 3 hearing, President Trump had named the Georgia governor and secretary of state in multiple tweets on Dec. 7, bluntly accusing them of violating the U.S. Constitution by making unauthorized changes to election laws before the election and refusing to hold a special session or conduct signature verification after the election, and that they were solely responsible for the potential loss of Georgia’s senators.
Georgia U.S. Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who are seeking re-election, said in a joint statement Nov. 9 that the secretary of state should step down immediately and that he failed to provide an honest and transparent election process.
President Trump retweeted a tweet from attorney Lin Wood on Dec. 15. The tweet said, “President Trump gave Kemp and Laffensperger every opportunity to do well, they turned it down, and they’re going to jail.” The tweet included a photo of Kemp and Laffensperger wearing masks featuring a Communist blood flag.
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