House Republicans are rushing to Donald Trump’s defense after the president was recorded pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state. House Democrats are preparing a resolution to censure Trump over the call. New York Congressmember Alexanadria Ocasio-Cortez has gone further, saying Trump should be impeached.
Meanwhile, a top Georgia elections official on Monday debunked Trump’s baseless claims point by point. Gabriel Sterling is Georgia’s Republican voting implementation manager.
Gabriel Sterling: “This is all easily provably false. Yet the president persists.”
On Sunday, all 10 living former U.S. defense secretaries signed a Washington Post op-ed declaring that the time for questioning the results of the election has passed. They also said the U.S. military should not intervene in the presidential election. They wrote, “Efforts to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.”