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Sunday, January 03, 2021
Anger and despair on the phone
Trump urges Georgia’s election chief to manipulate
Shortly before the important Senate elections in Georgia, current US President Trump picks up the phone and makes a desperate call. For about an hour he urged his party colleague to “find” his missing votes. The media now publishes a recording.
According to a report, current US President Donald Trump has insisted on a subsequent change in the outcome of the elections in the state of Georgia in an unusual phone call. In the hour-long conversation, Trump bluntly asked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, responsible for running the election, to “find” enough votes for him and “recalculate” the result. The Washington Post reported. The newspaper also published parts of a recording of the conversation on Saturday. After the phone call, Trump described Raffensperger on Twitter as “clueless.”
Republican Trump threatened his party colleague Raffensperger in conversation that he was taking a “great risk” and that he could be guilty of a crime if he did not act against voter fraud. Trump narrowly lost Georgia in the November 3 election. Democrat Joe Biden was there with about 12,000 votes in the lead. There the results were reported twice; Despite Trump’s claims, there was no evidence of voter fraud.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes”
During the phone call, Trump complained about the “wrong” result in Georgia and claimed that he had won the election. “I just want to find 11,780 votes … because we won the state,” he said, according to the recording. “We won the elections and it is not fair to take away the victory,” Trump said. Raffensperger should verify the results again, the sitting US president demanded. “But check it out with people who want to find answers,” Trump said. Raffensperger responded, according to the recording: “We have to defend our numbers. We believe our numbers are correct.” The Secretary of State indicated that the results had been approved in court.
Georgia will also hold a two-seat second-round election in the Senate on Tuesday, the result of which could topple the Republican majority in the Washington House of Representatives. The Washington Post article said the “rambling and sometimes incoherent conversation” showed how “obsessed and desperate” the president was in the face of his electoral defeat. Trump still believes he could change the outcome in enough states to secure a second term. Trump lost the election, but continues to refuse to acknowledge Biden’s victory. This will be sworn in on January 20.
