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12:02 a.m. M.
Monday 04 January 2021
Books – Muhammad Ataya:
The Washington Post published an audio clip, which it said was a phone conversation between outgoing President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Ravensberger, about the state’s election results and the extent to which the outcome could be modified. in favor of Trump.
According to the American newspaper; Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Ravensberger to find enough votes to reverse his defeat.
Trump tried to persuade the Georgia secretary in which he lost the election to President-elect Joe Biden, berating him, flattering him at times, pleading with him at other times, or threatening him with vague criminal consequences.
Throughout the call, the secretary of state refused to accept Trump’s claims about his electoral victory in the state.
Trump said: “The people of Georgia are angry and the people of the country are angry … and there is nothing wrong with saying, as you know, that he recalculated the results.”
“Well, Mr. President, your challenge is that the data you have is wrong,” Ravensburger said.
Trump kept trying to persuade him, saying, “Look … I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is more than we have. Because we won the state.”
The Washington Post said the conversation gave an idea of how desperate Trump was after losing the presidential election and that he was unable to acknowledge the matter or reverse the results in the states.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and conservative attorney Cletta Mitchell participated in and supported Trump’s call with the Georgia secretary of state, the newspaper reported.
The White House, the Trump campaign and Meadows did not immediately respond to the Washington Post’s request for comment.
Trump’s pressure on Ravensberger is the latest example of his attempt to undermine the outcome of the November 3 election through personal contact with Republican officials in the state, the newspaper said.
He previously called Michigan Republican leaders to the White House and lobbied Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in a call to try to replace that state’s electors, and asked Pennsylvania officials to help him reverse his loss. In this state.
On December 14, the electoral college approved that Biden win the votes of 306 of the top voters, compared to 232 for Trump. The House of Representatives and the Senate meet next Wednesday to confirm this result, in a mechanism that is considered traditional.
The outgoing president refuses to acknowledge his defeat and has asked his supporters to meet in Washington next Wednesday.
CNN reported that in the House of Representatives, which has a majority of Democrats, more than 100 Republican members intend to vote against ratification. But this step will not be fruitful, because there are not enough votes for that, neither in the House of Representatives nor in the Senate.
In their statement, the eleven members said: “We are not naive … we hope that the majority vote will be different, whether it is from all Democrats or from various Republicans.”
