‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: WaPo releases recording of extraordinary hour-long call in which Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor
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This is called election tampering.
President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.
The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”
Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.
And yes, a potential impeachment and conviction of Trump by Congress within the next 16 days is not out of the realm of possibility.
The WaPo story includes several “lowlights” from the call and includes the full audio. The NY Daily News, in its summary of the developments, describes Trump as “unhinged” during the call.
DEVELOPING HARD…