Oddbean new post about login | logout @c11fa870 If Trump had been a private citizen (perhaps he was a candidate who hadn't been elected yet), would it have been legal for him to call the governor of Georgia and ask him to 'find the votes'?
@019aa5eb I've passed that along to our politics editor, who had these initial thoughts: "He's asking for something illegal: Please find some bogus votes. But if he as a private citizen isn't part of a conspiracy to overturn the election, maybe the call gets written off as a 'crazy guy' and that's it. I think the nature of the charges in GA has to do with the conspiracy and not just the individual acts."