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Wednesday 02 December 2020
Donald Trump has yet to admit defeat in the US presidential election. He is still spreading his allegations of fraud. Now an election official is asking Trump to stop his tirades. Otherwise, Gabriel Sterling fears that the violence will escalate.
A senior election official from Georgia has made an urgent appeal to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the face of continuing doubts about the election results and threats of violence against those involved in the elections. “Show greatness, stop. Step in, tell your followers: Don’t be violent. Stop threatening. This is all wrong, he’s not American,” Gabriel Sterling said in a press release in Atlanta.
Addressing Trump, he said, visibly upset: “You have the right to go to court. What you can’t do, … is stop causing people to commit possible acts of violence.” Sterling warned: “Someone will be injured. Someone will be shot. Someone will be killed.”
Sterling made no secret of his bewilderment and justified his anger at threats from southern state election officials, including an employee of a software company. Trump narrowly defeated Joe Biden in Georgia. A second count is currently underway. Those responsible this time do not expect any change in the result either.
Trump has yet to admit his defeat to Biden and spreads unsubstantiated claims almost daily about alleged election irregularities that would have cost him his victory. Sterling accused Trump and the senators of failing to condemn the threats. It is about elections and therefore also the backbone of democracy. “Everyone who didn’t say a damn word was complicit,” he said. “Death threats, threats of violence, intimidation. That’s too much.”
Trump and his confidants have been raising their spirits for weeks against those responsible in Georgia, for example against Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who claims to have received death threats. Trump himself recently made disparaging remarks about Governor Brian Kemp, whom he feels disappointed in his attempts to overturn the election result. On Tuesday, he first asked him to do something about the election result. “You allowed your state to be defrauded,” Trump accused his party colleague on Twitter. He asked him to cancel the second-round elections for two Senate seats in January, the result of which could break Republican dominance in the important House of Congress.
