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Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the Georgia secretary of
state’s office, condemned President Donald Trump and the state’s
two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, in a
fiery press conference Tuesday after a local election worker
received death threats.

Sterling, who works for Republican Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger, opened the press conference by saying an election
contractor in Gwinnett County had received death threats after
conspiracy theorists spread videos of the worker on social media.

Sterling did not name the worker, who he called a “twenty-
something tech” working for Dominion Voting Systems, a voting
machine vendor that has become the subject of unfounded right-
wing conspiracy theories regarding the election results.
Sterling said the worker has “death threats and a noose put out,
saying he should be hung for treason” and that his family has
been harassed. Social media posts falsely accuse the worker by
name of manipulating data. (POLITICO is also not further
identifying him for his safety.)

“Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this
language,” he said. “Senators, you have not condemned this
language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step
up. And if you’re going to take a position of leadership, show
some.”

“Mr. President, it looks like you likely lost the state of
Georgia,” Sterling said later in the press conference. “Stop
inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone
is going to get hurt, someone is going to get shot, someone is
going to get killed. And it’s not right.”

Sterling noted that both he and Raffensperger, along with
Raffensperger’s wife, have also received threats. Sterling also
brought up Joe DiGenova, an attorney for the president, calling
for Chris Krebs to be shot. Krebs was fired by Trump from
leading the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency after saying the election was
secure, and DiGenova later tried to portray his comment as a
hyperbole.

“It has to stop,” Sterling said. “This is elections. This is the
backbone of democracy. And all of you who have not said a damn
word are complicit in this. It is too much. … It is not right.
They have lost the moral high ground to claim that it is.”

Dominion, which supplies voting systems for Georgia, has been at
the center of conspiracy theories circulated by the president
and his allies. The president tweeted falsely that Dominion has
deleted millions of votes, among other conspiracy theories he
has spread about the election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/01/georgia-election- official-condemns-trump-441879
 

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