Maricopa County Official ‘Horrified’ When Trump Called after 2020 Election
The White House made repeated calls in the weeks following the 2020 election. But the recipient, a top Maricopa County supervisor, was not keen to get involved with what he feared was the setup for a conversation about finding fraud that officials were certain did not exist.
Clint Hickman, a 56-year-old lifelong Republican who was chairman of the board in the populous Arizona county that is now the site of a controversial audit of the 2020 election, described the”horrifying” realization he had in early January after it was revealed former President Donald Trump tried pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the number of votes sufficient to eclipse the margin of President Joe Biden’s victory.
That call is now under scrutiny as part of a criminal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election in Fulton County.
Hickman says he ignored the calls from the White House. But like Georgia, Arizona was a reliably red state that narrowly went Biden’s way in 2020. Interviews, text messages, and voicemails obtained by Arizona Central show Trump wanted a chat — at the time when some of Trump’s most fervent allies were pressing members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to question and stymie the results. (Read more from “Maricopa County Official ‘Horrified’ When Trump Called after 2020 Election” HERE)
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