Topline President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, to resign, intensifying his condemnation of Kemp resulting from the governor’s refusal to buy into the president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud within the state during the 2020 general election. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the … [+] White House on September 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump is traveling to Minnesota for a fundraising event and a campaign rally. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Facts In a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump wrote that Kemp “should resign from office. He is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia, BIG!” In the same post, Trump encouraged his supporters to watch a broadcast of a Senate hearing in Atlanta related to what he called the “Georgia Election overturn.” Trump has relentlessly criticized Kemp in the weeks since President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia by 12,000 votes in the Nov. 3 election, but Wednesday marked the first time Trump called for Kemp to step down from his post. Key Background: Georgia has been one of the states that Trump has falsely alleged was “stolen” from him due primarily to extensive fraud connected to absentee ballots. However, the Georgia secretary of state’s office released a new report Tuesday evening, which, again, cont… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Trump Calls For Resignation Of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
