Republican Officials Detail Trump's Effort To Subvert Presidential Election Results
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The committee also heard from Shaye Moss, a former staff election worker in Georgia who was targeted by Trump and his allies over baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud. She left her job as racist attacks and threats against her safety mounted.
This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and Georgia Public Broadcasting's Stephen Fowler.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States to target you? |
| 0:08.3 | The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not the target one, |
| 0:17.8 | but he targeted me, Lady Ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud American citizen |
| 0:27.7 | who stand up to help Fulton County running the election in the middle of the pandemic. |
| 0:38.2 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. It is 430 Eastern on Tuesday, June 21st. I'm Scott |
| 0:45.3 | Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Deer Deer Walsh. I cover Congress. |
| 0:48.9 | And we've got Stephen Fowler with us from Georgia Public Broadcasting. Hey, Stephen. |
| 0:52.9 | Hey there. So the clip we just heard from is Ruby Friedman, who's a former election worker |
| 0:57.6 | in Georgia, who was targeted by then President Trump over her work as an election official. |
| 1:03.5 | Trump's campaign to overturn and delegitimize the 2020 presidential election was the subject of |
| 1:09.2 | today's hearing on the January 6th committee. Specifically, the committee looked today at the |
| 1:14.7 | pressure that Trump and his associates placed on state officials, on local officials, people on |
| 1:20.2 | the state level who certified the election and then rejected his push over and over again to try |
| 1:26.3 | and overturn those election results. Stephen, I think Brad Raffinsberger, Georgia Secretary of |
| 1:32.3 | State is probably the most famous Secretary of State in America. I think there's no question |
| 1:36.3 | that Gabriel Sterling is the most famous chief operating officer in a Secretary of State's office |
| 1:41.4 | in America. I mean, we've heard so much from them in the weeks after the election. You covered |
| 1:46.7 | every twist and turn of the pressure campaign in Georgia. What did you hear from Raffinsberger |
| 1:51.0 | in Sterling today? There were really compelling characters today because Brad Raffinsberger is about |
| 1:57.6 | as capital C conservative as you can get. So it's not like somebody's questioning the motives |
| 2:03.2 | of the people speaking about why they stood up for the rule of law and why they did these things. |
| 2:08.1 | And with Raffinsberger, I mean, he testified about the threats that he faced, people sent sexualized |
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