Weltnachrichten – AU – Ex-attorney general says Trump « talks like a mafia boss and not like a particularly clever mafia boss »

Neal Katyal, who served as acting attorney general under former President Obama, compared a recording made by President TrumpDonald TrumpCotton to conservative colleagues who will vote against Trump to award Nunes Medal of Freedom : Reports Hogan says the legislature’s « scheme » to reverse election results mocked our system in talking about organized crime rings. ”

« I’ve heard the extraordinary excerpts the Washington Post has, and based at least on those excerpts, it sounds like Donald Trump is speaking like a mafia boss rather than a particularly clever mafia boss. « . This is the way people speak in organized crime rings and you see it there, « Katyal told MSNBC host Alex Witt.

« You know, maybe this works in the Soviet Union or something. It was certainly not the way America, the American government, operated, « he added.

« This is the way people in the rings of organized crime speak, » @neal_katyal says of President Trump’s language in his call to pressure the Georgian Foreign Minister to reverse the election results. picture. Twitter. com / bnmxYY38as

The Washington Post published a story on Sunday that appeared to show excerpts from a phone conversation between Trump and Raffensperger how the president asked the Secretary of State to find the votes needed to overturn the Georgia election results.

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Katyal, now a law professor at Georgetown, said he believed Trump’s actions were « really, really a criminal offense ». « 

« This is at the heart of the abuse of power that our founders were so concerned about. It is the idea that the government official can use the powers of his office to try to stay in office and beat other officials who disagree with them, « he said.

« So one question is whether or not a great crime and misdemeanor has been committed. Surely the tape sounds the way it is. The second is whether or not there is a criminal offense, and the Federal Code 52 U. . S.. . C.. . 20511 forbids a federal official from interfering in a state election process, « said Katyal.

He said the Justice Department should « at least initiate an investigation ». « 

« The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry, » Trump said on the record received by the Post. « And there is nothing wrong with saying that you recalculated. ”

« Well, Mr.. . President, the challenge you have is the data you have is wrong, ”replied Raffensperger.

Trump also advanced conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems and « shredded ballots in Fulton County, » both of which were shot down during the call.

Democratic MP. Don Beyer (Va. ) agreed with Katyal’s characterization of the phone call, saying on Twitter on Sunday: « Trump is threatening tape-elected officials like a cheap gangster – trying to get them to commit massive election fraud – and the Republicans in Congress want to keep him. « Power by subverting the voice of the American people. « 

Trump is on the tape, threatening elected officials like a cheap gangster – trying to get them to commit massive criminal fraud – and the Republicans in Congress want to keep him in power by overturning the votes of the American people. You are absolutely complicit here. https: // t. co / lPcFSX3VKU

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