High-profile New York Times correspondent and so-called “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman has now spoken out on the topic of the Grand Jury investigation in Fulton County, Georgia, on the topic of whether or not Donald Trump broke Georgia state law when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and all but demanded that the state official “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win in the traditionally red southern state. And Haberman says that ex-President Donald Trump “certainly is concerned,” as the washed-up, one-term, twice-impeached former guy almost simultaneously tries to publicly defend himself against the allegations in yet another unhinged rant.
We reported this week that numerous grand jury subpoenas were ultimately issued against several high-profile Trump allies in connection to the Fulton County criminal investigation, including South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump’s old personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
During an episode of CNN’s New Day, co-anchors Brianna Keilar and John Berman discussed the new development with Haberman and asked the Times correspondent how Donald Trump’s anxiety regarding the Fulton County investigation is stacking up against his panic over Merrick Garland’s DOJ probe.
“So, the line out of people close to him for a while has been, no, no, no, he’s much more worried about Georgia than he is about the Department of Justice. Now, again, I don’t know whether DOJ eventually may take over this investigation. There is some speculation that could happen. He certainly is concerned about Georgia. I think it is hard to believe that he is not concerned about the Justice Department investigation, but I think Georgia is just more concrete, something he can point to,” Haberman explained. “And, remember, John, there is a tape of him in Georgia on a phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. That’s a big piece of why it’s a concern to him.”
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At almost the same time, Trump was on his floundering social media site, pretty much proving Maggie’s point.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump raged:
BOTH of my phone calls to Georgia were PERFECT. I had an absolute right to make them &, in fact, the story on the one call was given a retraction, or apology, by the Washington Post because they were given terribly false information about it, & when they heard the actual call, they realized that their story was wrong. Thank you to the W.P. I, as does anyone else (just look at the Democrats!), have the absolute right to challenge the results of an Election.This one, CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN!”
Erik Wemple with the Washington Post explained in a piece in his “Erik Wemple Blog” the retractions that Trump was referencing:
On Jan. 9, The Post reported that then-President Donald Trump, in a call with Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, had instructed her to “find the fraud.” He mentioned that she could become a “national hero,” reported the newspaper.
In both cases, the quotes were wrong, as The Post has acknowledged in a correction to the story. “Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find ‘dishonesty’ there. He also told her that she had ‘the most important job in the country right now,’”reads the correction, in part.”
“Certainly concerned” is certainly correct.
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