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Two Democratic Congressmen They asked the FBI on Monday to open an investigation against the outgoing president, Donald Trump, for pressuring the authorities of Georgia so that they change the results of the elections in that state in their favor.
In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray the members of the House of Representatives Ted Lieu of California and Kathleen Rice of New York they asked him to initiate “an immediate criminal investigation into the president.”
In a call of almost an hour to the highest electoral authority of Georgia, which was leaked to the media, the president tried last Saturday to convince him to manipulate the results of the November 3 elections in his favor, which were won in that state for the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, by 11,779 votes.
“As members of Congress and former prosecutors, we believe that Donald Trump participated in a solicitation or conspiracy to commit various electoral crimes,” the lawmakers wrote.
During her conversation with him Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, The highest electoral authority in the state, Trump again repeated his unsubstantiated allegations of fraud and asked him to “find” enough votes to give him the winner.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, “said Trump, who insisted that it was he who won the election.
In the call, Raffensperger disassembled one by one the allegations of irregularities and conspiracy theories that Trump was presenting to him, despite which the outgoing president insisted on his request that he change the final result in his favor.
He even threatened the Georgia Secretary of State, who is a Republican, that he could face criminal consequences if he did not agree to his request.
Speaking to the ABC television network, Raffensperger said today that he did not believe it appropriate for his office to be in charge of launching an investigation into the call to determine whether Trump has committed electoral crimes with his pressure.
“I understand the Fulton County District Attorney wants to see you. Maybe that’s the right place to do it, ”said the secretary of state, referring to one of the Georgia counties where Trump insists there were irregularities.
Raffensperger insisted on the cleanliness of the elections and the investigations that were carried out into the alleged irregularities alleged by the president, which he described as “rumors.”
“I am not a lawyer. All I know is that we are going to follow the law, follow the process, ”he said.
Since Biden’s election victory was confirmed, Trump has insisted that he is the subject of a fraud that he has failed to prove in court and has pressured lawmakers and state authorities to ignore the result and declare him the winner.
Next Wednesday, Congress is scheduled to hold a session to ratify the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden, something that at least 12 senators and 100 Republican legislators have said they will oppose.
However, Biden’s victory is expected to be ratified without problems due to the majority that Democrats have in the Lower House and that 12 senators are not enough for that position to prosper.
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