Trump Called Arizona GOP Leader to Persuade Him to Alter Election Votes

  • Trump directly called a GOP leader in Arizona twice while he was trying to overturn the election. 
  • Clint Hickman, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors sent him to voicemail. 
  • “I told people, ‘Please don’t have the president call me,'” he told The New York Times.
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Former President Donald Trump called the GOP chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Clint Hickman, twice during the time he was trying to overturn the results of the election, The New York Times reported. 

Hickman told the Times he had Trump’s calls go straight to voicemail. 

“I told people, ‘Please don’t have the president call me,'” he said.

The calls were made in late December and early January, he told the Times. The first call came on New Year’s Eve with a…

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