‘It’s Looney Tunes’: Georgia Election Official Slams Pro-Trump Lawyers Encouraging Republicans To Boycott Runoff

Asked by CNN why the attorneys would propose such an idea during an interview Thursday, Sterling, who was thrust into the spotlight after he attacked President Trump for stoking violent threats over his baseless voter fraud claims this week, replied, “Who the heck knows?” before saying he was “speechless.”

During a press conference Wednesday, L. Lin Wood, an lawyer who has filed cases on Trump’s behalf, and Sidney Powell, a former Trump legal team attorney, encouraged Georgians to boycott the January 5 Senate runoff elections—which could decide control of the upper chamber—unless voting officials look into their unsubstantiated voter fraud claims. 

The wild proposal elicited scorn from Republicans and even the Trump campaign, whose Twitter account attacked Wood Wednesday night, posting an article that accused Wood of having Democratic ties. 

Wood, during the press conference, also attacked Sterling directly, telling him to “Listen up…you’re not going to sell our votes to China!” in an apparent reference to an unhinged conspiracy theory floated first by Powell.

Sterling laughed off Powell’s wild claims, saying they had “no basis in any reality whatsoever,” before criticizing the president for echoing similar claims during his rambling, 46-minute-long, video on the “rigged” election he posted Wednesday. 

“This all comes out of fever dreams,” Sterling added.