The news out of Georgia yesterday was that the Fulton County D.A. officially opened its case against Trump for election fraud by going to the grand jury, seeking subpoenas. During this whole process, ever since the telephone call by Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, one odd issue has struck me about it -- and I haven't hear a single analyst mention it. (Maybe some have, of course, but I just haven't heard any.) But hey, that's me, finding the "one odd issue." As we know at this point, the most damning comment that Trump made in the call was when he said to the Secretary of State: "What I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than [the 11,779 vote margin of defeat] we have, because we won the state." This is the odd thing: If all Trump wanted -- which we know is the case because it's exactly what he said on tape he wanted -- was to get just one more vote than the number of votes he was behind...that would have done him absolutely no good. Because if the Georgia Secretary of State had done this, had miraculously "found" the 11,780 votes Trump said he wanted, then Trump would have been ahead by..one vote. And I am sure that under Georgia law a "one vote margin" would have kicked in an automatic recount. And so, they would have done a complete recount of the entire state, every single vote. And it would have been under the most intense, meticulous scrutiny. And ultimately, that detailed recount would have shown reality -- that Joe Biden actually won Georgia by the same margin as had been announced. Maybe, possibly there would have been a shift of a few hundred votes -- one way or the other, it could have benefited Biden, for all we know -- but Biden won Georgia by 11,779. And no recount ever switches anywhere near that many votes. So, Joe Biden would have won, and it would have been meticulously confirmed. And then certified. Now, to be fair, not knowing Georgia law, it's possible that because the result Trump was on the phone about was already a recount, it might not have triggered an automatic recount. But the recount that had already been done (which Trump was referring to) wasn't a full-state recount, just a partial one. So, I'm sure that the process was available for the Biden campaign to request or at least pay have a complete recount. And since the margin would have been just one vote -- and a profoundly suspicious "one vote" at that -- it is not possible for me to think the Biden Team wouldn't have jumped on that immediately. At which point there would have been that full state recount and...see above. It would have been meticulous and under intense scrutiny, and Joe Biden would have won by about 11,779 votes. Because he did, in real life, win by 11,779 votes. But Trump, being Trump, thought that if the Georgia Secretary of State just announced on his own, with zero evidence to back it up, that -- oh, by the way, lookee here, it turns out that Trump received ONE more vote than Joe Biden -- that everyone in the country would have accepted that and said, "Well, how's about that! And recognized Trump as the winner of the state. (Which, by the way, still wouldn't have been enough to make him president.) In his warped, diseased mind it didn't even occur to him that the 81 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden wouldn't all say, "Hey, something seems fishy. Look into this." And so, in the end, it would have gotten Trump absolutely nothing. Well...hmm, no, that's not exactly true. It wouldn't have gotten Trump the election result he wanted, but it probably will get one one thing. And it's that for all his efforts, the one thing that it appears Trump's megalomania will probably get him is an indictment for election fraud by the Georgia Fulton County D.A. And possibly a conviction. So, that's two things.
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