Arizona Secretary Of State Wants Trump Investigated For Election Interference

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is asking the Arizona Attorney General to launch an investigation into possible election interference by Donald Trump and his allies. This request came after it was revealed last week that allies of the former President made frantic calls to officials in the state, begging them to stop counting ballots after the 2020 election. Hobbs says that this runs afoul of the state's laws about election interference, similar to the phone calls Trump made to Georgia officials. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Arizona secretary of state, Katie Hobbs sent a letter to the Arizona, Arizona, excuse me, attorney general yesterday asking him to please investigate Donald Trump. And of course his close allies, Rudy Giuliani, and possibly even Sidney Powell for possible election interference in the state of Arizona. Here's what happened in case you missed it last week, it was revealed that both the Trump white house and Rudy Giuliani on separate occasions and on multiple occasions made phone calls to officials in the state of Arizona following the November election, trying to get them to stop the counting. In fact, it got so bad. Let me read this. This is from the, uh, Arizona central. This is crazy. The Arizona Republic detailed two separate attempts by Trump to reach Republican supervisor Clinton Hickman in the weeks after the election, as the president's allies sought to alter the election results in a state, he narrowly lost a Democrat Joe Biden at the time, Hickman was chairman of the board of supervisors, the elected body that oversees elections in the state's most populous county Maricopa Hickman received the first call from the white house switchboard on December 31st while he was out celebrating the coming new year with his wife and friends, he let the call go to voicemail.

Second call came on the night of January 3rd after the Washington post published a recording of Trump's hour long phone call with Georgia secretary of state Hickman sought to avoid talking to the president because of ongoing litigation, any let the call go to voicemail and yes, for the record, the Arizona Republic does in fact have those voicemails where you can hear what they were trying to do. Then of course, Rudy Giuliani, uh, steps in, he starts emailing or I'm sorry, texting and calling the, uh, chairwoman of the Arizona Republican party, trying to get her to somehow interfere, stop the counting of the votes. Honestly, it is pretty much identical to what these idiots were doing over in Georgia, trying to get them to stop the vote, trying to get them to go find the votes as Trump said, and let's not forget. Trump is already under criminal investigation in Georgia. I know we all get distracted with New York, but there have been two grand juries empaneled in the state of Georgia regarding Donald Trump's potential election interference in that state. That's a big deal that everybody seems to have forgotten about. And now the same thing might happen in

Arizona. There's a catch here. Arizona's attorney general, a Man by the name of, uh, let me see if I can find it here. It's Uh, Brenna Vich Brenna Vich Is running for us Senate as a Republican. So he's got a lot, uh, got a lot at stake here. He can't off Republicans

Enough by investigating Donald Trump, even though Brenda Vich did, in fact, you know, uh, support Arizona's sweeping new voter suppression laws. So he does have that in his back pocket. But then again, you also have secretary of state Katie Hobbs, the one calling for the investigation who is going to be running for Arizona governor. So she wants to also get some brownie points here.