Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems manager, is just exasperated. "It has all gone too far." A technician in Gwinnett County was told he should be hung for treason. The Secretary of State's wife is getting "sexualized threats."
"It has to stop."
Sterling, a Georgia election official and a Republican: "Mr. President. It looks like you likely lost the state of Georgia. ... Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed."
"These are elections. One of our goals was to make elections boring again. Well guess what, that didn't happen. This is all wrong."
Sterling means "Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, two people whom I still support in the election booth, but they need to step up on this particular thing. And that's me speaking as a Republican, not in this office cuz I probably stepped out of line but I'm kinda pissed"
Sterling says Trump's statement that Brad Raffensperger is an "enemy of the people" "helped open the floodgates to this kind of crap. ... There are some nutballs out there who are going to take this and say 'The president told me to do this.'
"You have to be responsible."
Sterling: "You have to be responsible. You have to be responsible in your rhetoric, you have to be responsible in your statements, you have to be responsible in your deeds. That shouldn't be too much to ask from people who ask us to give them responsibility."
Video, which is worth your time. You don't see many statements like this from public officials, especially not ones directed at the leading figures of his own party.
Sidney Powell has filed an amended complaint in her Wisconsin "Kraken" lawsuit, removing @derrickvanorden, who said he was included as a plaintiff without his permission.
There's no explanation for what happened.
They're also trying to fix the emergency TRO motion that the judge said they had screwed up.
Interestingly, Powell & Co. say they should win this case based entirely on "questions of law that may be resolved without factual investigation or determination."
The City of Detroit has responded to Sidney Powell's longshot lawsuit trying to overturn the results of Michigan's presidential election. "A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. Few lawsuits breathe more lies than this one."
Detroit noticed that Powell's complaint cited exhibits and claims that had already been made in a state court case in Michigan, but didn't mention that the judge rejected them and the appellate courts turned them down, too.
Detroit: "Even the Trump campaign lawsuits have avoided the off-the-walls claims included in this lawsuit."
Anyway, after Georgia voting official @GabrielSterling basically implored people to tone down the rhetoric that's leading to violent threats, Trump ally L. Lin Wood says "You listen up, Gabriel. You're not going to sell our votes to China." Trumps ex-lawyer is in the background.
And now they crowd has moved on to a "lock him up" chant for Georgia's Republican governor.
This is insane. There's no other word for it. This isn't planet Earth.
The witnesses statements that are attached to Powell's Wisconsin election-fraud opus are just .... well, hard to describe.
Exhibit 1 is a recycled declaration from an anonymous Venezuelan who is "of sound mine," but didn't witness anything related to the U.S. election.
Exhibit 17 is a person who thinks it's suspicious that Democrats did better this year in counties where the Republican vote share increased in 2012 and 2016, because obviously that can only go in one direction.
One of the plaintiffs in Sidney Powell's latest election lawsuit says he did not consent to participating in the case. "I learned through social media today that my name was included in a lawsuit without my permission," he said.
Here's Powell's lawsuit describing Derrick Van Orden as one of the plaintiffs. He's also on the caption.
And here's Van Orden saying he was included without permission and that he is "not involved in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the election in Wisconsin."
President Trump's lawyers claimed in federal court last week that Wayne County, Mich. actually *didn't* certify its election results (it did). And that because it didn't, Trump's request for a court order preventing the county from certifying is now "moot."
This was in response to a motion from the City of Detroit to strike part of Trump's notice that he was dismissing the case, because it falsely claimed that he had already won. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
This isn't remotely how mootness works. If Wayne Co. hadn't certified its results yet, as Trump's lawyers claim, it would still be possible to get an injunction preventing it from doing so (with a meritorious claim).