Death Threats Against Election Workers

[Axtremus]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/01/gabriel-sterling-trump-stop-inspiring-threats-over-election/3785582001/
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WASHINGTON — A top election official with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to condemn and "stop inspiring" recent threats of violence as the state finishes a second recount of the presidential election.

"It has all gone too far," said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system implementation manager, raising his voice. "All of it."

Visibly angry, Sterling spent several minutes of an afternoon news conference describing threats targeting state election officials and workers. He said a 20-year-old tech employee in Gwinnett County received death threats and was made the subject of a noose image disseminated online Tuesday that read he should be "hung for treason."

"It has to stop. Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language," Sterling said. "Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up. And if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some."

The senators Sterling referenced are Georgia's two Republican U.S. senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are running in runoff elections on Jan. 5 that could decide control of the Senate.
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[89th]

Watched the video yesterday. Very good.

[Larry]

No one should make death threats. But no one should engage in election fraud, either.

[Jolly]

Ask me if I give a flying fuck...The only reason this crap makes the news, is that Trump sells.

[Larry]

I don't believe it anyway. Unless the death threats are being made to intimidate poll workers into keeping their l section fraud. when they witness e

[Jolly]

Where's Maxine Waters when you need her?

The Queen of Threats?

[jon-nyc]

This is what I was talking about the other day in George’s thread.

No one held out hope that Trump would condemn this, he was too busy egging it on.

[Larry]

Reading the article it seems to me that an election official working out of the Georgia Secretary of State's office, the Secretary of State being suspected of being involved in the election fraud that is going on in Georgia by the way, was told that one 20 year old kid working in the ballot counting was sent a picture of a noose by some other kid on Facebook and told he should be hung, has decided to accuse Trump of "inspiring" it.

What the kid who sent the picture did and said was wrong, but so is attempting to blame Trump for it.

[jon-nyc]

The Secretary of State Raffensperger and his wife have received death threats. He’s a Republican who voted for and gave money to the Trump campaign.

Trump literally called him an “enemy of the people”.

I think we can apportion some blame there.

[Copper]

Mr. Trump has condemned violence hundreds and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of times during his presidency.

It is never enough.

Because it is still open season on making up whatever story you want about Mr. Trump.

We will forever have to hear that he doesn't condemn violence.

He does.

[Jolly]

Yeah, and he's never condemned white supremacists, either!

[jon-nyc]

Condemning violence at one point in time is only so useful if you’re going to incite it at another.

It’s sort of the “95% peaceful” logic applied to Trump.

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Death Threats Against Election Workers:

Condemning violence at one point in time is only so useful

Maybe every 5 minutes would do it.

Or would every 10 minutes be enough?

I think cnn would continue to say he didn't.

[jon-nyc]

How about not incite it in the first place?

And if you do target someone will that kind of language, and after which your base attacks him and his family, then feel an obligation to call them off?

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Death Threats Against Election Workers:

How about not incite it in the first place?

How about not pretending that he incites violence?

[jon-nyc]

I could pretend he didn’t incite this but that wouldn’t be much help to the Raffensperger family, now would it.

[Larry]

The one who incited violence the most is Barack Obama. So not condemning Obama for all the violence he was directly involved in inciting while condemning Trump for something he had nothing to do with is a bit silly.

[jon-nyc]

Larry - how did he have nothing to do with the threats against Raffensperger and his family?

He’s tweeted about him repeatedly and called him an “enemy of the people”.

But for Donald Trump none of us would even know who he is. And that includes the people threatening his family.

[Larry]

I don't know anything about that. I'll read up on it.

[Larry]

Ah,.. didn't recognize the name. I don't know what Trump has said about him, but friends of mine in Georgia tell me the man is ridiculous. He suffers from that "I've made up my mind and nothing will change my opinion, not even facts" syndrome that a couple here suffer from. I'm not sure anything Trump might have said has made the hostility toward the man that many Georgians already feel toward him any worse.