This one will be short and sweet. I promise.

Yes, I am glad Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rejected Donald Trump’s effort to illegally overturn the certified vote count during the November election.  But he is no saint nor model citizen nor a profile in courage. Two data points.

First, Raffensperger said he had no intention of releasing the tape UNTIL Trump tweeted lies about him.  A moral individual, the minute he hung up the phone, would have called the Georgia attorney general and told him the president violated state election law and Trump threatened him if he did not break the law in support of the GOP lies and conspiracy theories.

Second, this morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” George Stephanopoulos asked Raffensperger, having had this experience, would he vote for Trump again.  The right answer is not, “No.”  It’s, “HELL NO!”  Instead, Raffensperger said he has always supported Republicans and “probably always will,” but that Trump isn’t on the 2024 ballot, “so we’ll just have to wait and see what would happen.”

So what is his motive for standing up to Trump?  Not a belief Trump is staging a bloodless coup, for which he is an ear witness, and needs to be stopped.  He acts only when he is concerned about his own criminal liability if he violates his oath of office.  He only speaks up when his well-being is at risk, physically or politically.  How does that make him any different than Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz or any other member of the dirty, seditious dozen?

For what it’s worth.
Dr. ESP