“Find me votes to win Georgia”

Published on: 01/03/2021 9:57 PM

“Find me the votes to win in Georgia.” Donald Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to annul the outcome of the elections in the state. The Washington Post obtained a tape of the conversation between the president and Raffensberger. Trump, in the phone call that lasted about an hour, according to the WP, alternated requests and threats to convince the interlocutor. Raffensperger, before the theses that the president has raised when hypothesizing electoral fraud, continued to reiterate the veracity of the vote count, which certified the victory of Joe Biden by 11,779 preferences. “Look, I want you to do this. I want you to get 11,780 votes, one more than us. Because we won the state,” Trump’s words. “It is not possible that he lost in Georgia, absolutely. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.” According to the newspaper, the call was also attended by Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, and lawyer Cleta Mitchell.

In the conversation, the president would address Raffensberger and his adviser Ryan Germany highlighting “the great risk” linked to the lack of action to identify the fraud that, for the White House, would have occurred in Fulton County. In the conversation, the Washington Post adds, the president became nervous, seemed confused multiple times, and missed appointments. He continued to insist on the irregularities related in particular to the illegal votes cast on behalf of thousands of deceased people. “The real number is 2. Two. Two people who died and voted,” Raffensberger said. According to the Washington Post, which refers to the opinion of the jurists, the action places Trump in ‘legally questionable territory’: the president “seems to encourage” the interlocutor “to alter the outcome of the elections in Georgia.” According to the newspaper, the president’s conduct is morally deplorable. In particular, reference is made to the judgment expressed by Professor Edward B. Foley, from the Ohio State University School of Law, who judged the conduct “inappropriate and improper.” He was already setting off the alarm. If before we were at level 12, on a scale of 1 to 10, now we are at 15 “.