Lindsey Graham desperate to avoid testifying about Trump's Georgia election crimes
by Glenn Kirschner
Jul 16, 2022
A Georgia state court judge has ordered Lindsey Graham to testify before the grand jury because Graham is an important and necessary witness to the possible Georgia state election crimes of former president Donald Trump. In a remarkable show of cowardice, Graham ran to a federal court in South Carolina and filed a motion to quash the subpoena in a desperate attempt to keep from having to testify about Trump's crimes.
This video takes apart the legal claims in Graham's court court filing. This video also discusses the real reason Graham is scared to death of being placed under oath and examined about his repeated phone calls with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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so senator lindsey graham
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is trying to avoid
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having to testify about the crimes of
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donald trump
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a sitting united states senator
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is trying to use the legal process use
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the courts
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to continue to conceal
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evidence
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of donald trump's crimes
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let that sink in
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and then let's talk about it
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because justice
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matters
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hey all glenn kirschner here
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so senator lindsey graham
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graham has been ordered by a state court
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judge in georgia
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to appear before a grand jury in fulton
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county georgia to testify
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about the possible georgia state
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election crimes
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of donald trump
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so what does lindsey graham do
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does he step up and say i am happy to
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help and provide truthful testimony
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about everything i know no
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lindsay runs to a federal court
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in south carolina
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and tries to avoid having to testify
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he files what's called the motion to
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quash to basically kill the subpoena so
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he doesn't have to go into a grand jury
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and testify about the democracy ending
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crimes of his man
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donald trump
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lindsey graham would rather use
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the legal process and the courts to try
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to continue to conceal
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the crimes of donald trump
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we're going to have some fun with this
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one friends
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let's start by looking at the recent
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reporting in the washington post
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headline
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graham
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trying to quash subpoena denies election
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meddling
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that article begins
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u.s senator lindsey graham
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wasn't seeking to interfere in georgia's
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2020 election when he called state
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officials to ask them to re-examine
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certain absentee ballots after president
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donald trump's narrow loss to democrat
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joe biden
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his lawyers said in a federal court
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filing
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talk about protesting too much
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the article continues
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graham's lawyers made that argument as
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part of efforts to fight a subpoena
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compelling the south carolina republican
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to testify before a special grand jury
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in georgia that's investigating trump
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and his allies actions
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after his 2020 election defeat
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in her subpoena petition
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fulton county district attorney fawnee
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willis
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wrote that graham a longtime trump ally
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made at least two telephone calls to
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georgia secretary of state brad
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raffensberger and members of his staff
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in the weeks after trump's loss to biden
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asking about re-examining certain
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absentee ballots
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to explore the possibility of a more
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favorable outcome
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for former president donald trump
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and friends
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here is the court filing
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that i just read
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filed by lindsey graham and his lawyers
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and frankly you don't need to be
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a lawyer to laugh at this to find the
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comedic value in what we read
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in lindsey graham's court filing it's a
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court filing that's basically captioned
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lindsey graham
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versus the grand jury
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and it's called an expedited motion to
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quash
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quash is a fancy word to kill the
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subpoena and please don't make me
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testify
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and here is how lindsey graham's motion
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opens
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fulton county district attorney has
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ensured south carolina senator lindsey o
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graham that he's not a target or a
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subject of the grand jury investigating
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possible attempts to disrupt the lawful
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administration of the 2020 elections in
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the state of georgia
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talk about
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this sort of
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breathless denial of any wrongdoing
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that's not even what this motion is all
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about
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lindsay
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but as much as you're protesting
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it seems like you might have a little
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consciousness of guilt going on
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the first sentence says i didn't i
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didn't do anything wrong
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the motion continues
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senator graham moves to quash
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because
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one
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uh the constitution's speech or debate
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clause protects him from this legal
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process or to
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sovereign immunity
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prohibits enforcement of the state court
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process on him as a federal officer or
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three
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there are no extraordinary circumstances
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exist for compelling his testimony or or
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for the dog ate his subpoena
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i made up number four
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but the breathlessness of this nonsense
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is telling
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and folks as far as the legal argument
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itself here is what it all boils down to
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and then we're going to talk about why
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lindsay is going to lose this litigation
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and is going to be forced to testify and
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then we're going to talk about what he's
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really afraid of
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here's what it all boils down to
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when the speech or debate clause is
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raised
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in defense to a subpoena
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the only question to resolve
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is whether the matters about which the
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testimony are sought
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fall within the sphere of legitimate
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legislative
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activity
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so
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that's the operative legal question the
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whole legal ballgame is
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whether
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when lindsey graham
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repeatedly called
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secretary of state brad raffensberger
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he had a legitimate legislative purpose
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let's look at some of the data points in
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trying to answer that question
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first of all these calls that he placed
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to raffensberger apparently were not
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recorded
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unlike
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the call that donald trump placed to the
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same republican secretary of state brad
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raffensberger when we have all heard him
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on virtually an endless loop now
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say just find me eleven thousand seven
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hundred and eighty votes
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and corruptly declare me the winner i
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don't care about anything else
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and that ladies and gentlemen
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on that audio recording in donald
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trump's own voice that
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is the georgia state crime of soliciting
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election fraud for which donald trump
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must be indicted and for which donald
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trump i predict will be indicted
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but as far as we know the calls that
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lindsey graham placed to brad raffen's
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burger were not recorded
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however
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brad raffensberger told us a little
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something about the content of those
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calls
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here is what brad raffensberger told the
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washington post about those calls that
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lindsey graham was making to him
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after their call raffensberger told the
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washington post that graham had asked
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him whether he had the power to reject
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certain absentee ballots
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a question
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raffensberger interpreted
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as graham's suggestion to toss out
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legally cast votes
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an allegation that graham calls
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ridiculous
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so friends let's think about that the
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other party on that phone call those
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multiple phone calls because lindsay
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kept calling in
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brad raffensberger said
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yeah the things
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senator graham was saying to me
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made it sound like he was urging me to
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toss out lawfully cast votes
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i mean can't you just hear lindsey
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graham on those phone calls
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brad
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brad come on you're a republican i'm a
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republican
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would it kill you to just you know
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toss out
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some of those votes
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for joe biden
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oh and brad brad
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if anybody asks
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i'm saying these things
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for
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a legitimate
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legislative purpose
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i don't know if lindsay would have
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winked because it was an audio call
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maybe not a zoom call but
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you get the point
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this was not
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for a legitimate
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legislative purpose
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but you know i just wanted to check
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and be sure
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and i reached out to one of my good
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friends kim whaley she's a
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constitutional law professor and wicked
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smart on this kind of stuff and i said
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you know kim
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any of this nonsense
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in what lindsey graham just filed in
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federal court in south carolina
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trying you know
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not to have to testify about donald
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trump's crimes does any of that hold
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water
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and she said well
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speech and debate which is what
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lindsey graham is offering to try to
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defeat
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the
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necessity to testify the speech and
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debate clause
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speech and debate does not protect him
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from non-legislative activity like
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trying to overthrow an election
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yet lindsey graham
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will
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lose
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in federal court he will be compelled to
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testify before the fulton county special
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grand jury investigating donald trump's
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election crimes
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and here is what i suggest is really
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driving old lindsay's train
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this is why he is breathless and
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hysterical in his determination not to
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have to testify
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part of it is he wants to keep
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concealing the crimes of donald trump i
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have no doubt
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but here is another important piece of
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it
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once we know
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that brad raffensberger's interpretation
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of what lindsey graham was telling him
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to do was to toss out lawfully cast
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votes
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lindsay has a little thing called
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the fifth amendment privilege against
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self-incrimination
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yeah
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when the other party to the conversation
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says he was trying to get me to commit
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election fraud
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lindsey graham doesn't want to have to
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be placed under oath before a grand jury
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and testify about that
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because brad raffensberger is already on
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record
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saying what lindsay told him to do
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so lindsey graham's lawyers
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undoubtedly would advise him look if you
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lose this litigation and you have to
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testify and he will lose
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you're going to need to invoke your
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fifth amendment right against
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self-incrimination you're going to need
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to plead the fifth
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and that
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is not a good look
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for a sitting united states senator you
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know why
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because justice
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matters
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stay tuned friends
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we will update this one in real time
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and hopefully um
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lindsay's day of reckoning will come
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friends please stay safe please stay
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tuned and i look forward to talking with
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you all again tomorrow
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