Trump’s Georgia Call Crosses a Red Line

David Frum spins out the consequences in The Atlantic:

(Trump’s Georgia Call Crosses a Red Line – The Atlantic)

‘In a bombshell conversation with Georgia’s secretary of state yesterday, President Donald Trump made monkeys of every Republican official and every conservative talking head who professed to believe Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. The president himself made clear that he had only one end in view: overturning the 2020 election.

…[A] president desperate enough to try to steal an election on a recorded line is desperate enough to try a self-pardon. If a president can pardon himself as well as his or her subordinates, a president can order any crime, or commit it himself, with absolute impunity. The very notion of a self-pardon is radically inconsistent with democratic accountability. If Trump tries to pardon himself, his successors must fight his attempt all the way to the Supreme Court. And given the Raffensperger recording, who doubts that Trump will try it?…’

— via The Atlantic

One thought on “Trump’s Georgia Call Crosses a Red Line

  1. It crossed the line as much as the Zelensky call crossed it.
    Rather, than read the transcript from or listen to the recording of the entire call, perhaps you could give us a primer on the distinctions between projection and projective identification.

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