MTG has a wacky new conspiracy theory on Trump and Georgia
Thursday, March 28 found attorneys for Donald Trump arguing, in an Atlanta courtroom, that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference/RICO case against him needs to be thrown out on First Amendment grounds. Legal experts and Trump critics on MSNBC pushed back against their claims, stressing that trying to overturn election results is not protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, assigned to Willis' case, did not make a decision on March 28. But so far, McAfee has allowed the prosecution to continue even though he has thrown out some of the charges. And McAfee has ruled that although Willis' relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade gave the appearance of impropriety, it was not a full-fledged conflict of interest.
That same day, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) unveiled a new conspiracy theory about Trump, Georgia and the 2020 election — one that has nothing to do with QAnon or "Jewish space lasers." Appearing on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, the far-right MAGA congresswoman claimed that in 2020, the U.S. Postal Service lost thousands of mail-in ballots in Georgia that, if they had been counted, would have been enough to give Trump the state's electoral votes.
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Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential elections are the focus of two separate criminal indictments: one by Willis for the State of Georgia, the other by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Willis is zeroing in on Trump's activities in the Peach State, while Smith's case is looking at election interference in a variety of states that Trump lost to now-President Joe Biden in 2020.
In early January 2021, Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a conservative Republican, to "find" him 11,780 votes — a conversation that many Trump critics see as incontrovertible proof of guilt in Smith and Willis' cases. Greene, however, has maintained that Trump's request was perfectly innocent.
On March 28's "War Room" podcast, Greene told Bannon, "When President Trump got on the phone with our secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and said, 'Can you find the votes, where are they?,' he was basically looking for ballots. And these ballots have been lost in the mail. And so, there was nothing wrong with what President Trump said. As a matter of fact, I think he'll be vindicated easily by a lot of the work that I'm doing and the proof that I'll be showing pretty soon."
Greene went on to tell Bannon, "I've been learning about the failures of the post office and how many absentee ballots do not get counted because they come in late.
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On X, formerly Twitter, journalist Aaron Rupar posted video of Greene's "War Room" appearance and noted that "even Steve Bannon" appeared "skeptical of Marge's claims about the post office rigging elections."
The New Republic's Tori Otten, reporting on Greene's conversation with Bannon, noted, "The full transcript of Trump's call with Raffensperger reveals that the former president wanted to go through all of the ballots cast in Georgia and re-verify them. And in the process, he wanted to disqualify ballots cast for Biden until he himself took the lead."
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