that donald trump previously tried to overthrow the election in just the state where this took place, just one state, georgia. let's just focus on that. so first there was the audit of ballot signatures in cobb county which came after immense pressure from donald trump. in fact, in the press conference announcing that audit, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger conceded it was in direct response to trump's ongoing bogus claims of fraud. quote, "now that the signature matching has been attacked again and again with no evidence, i feel we need to take steps to restore confidence in our elections." of course the audit didn't find anything nefarious. but that did not stop then white house chief of staff mark meadows from traveling to georgia to oversee it. and it is unclear exactly what expertise meadows would bring to an operation like that other than lending these wild conspiracy theories legitimacy of the white house, which of course was the real objective. an objective that was also on display when trump personally called georgia's republican governor, brian kemp, on december 5th of last year.