Trump asked the Georgia Secretary of State by phone to recalculate the votes – Corriere.it

Donald Trump has asked Georgia’s Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to “get” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. It is written by The Washington Post, which obtained the recording of the long telephone call (about an hour), in which the president alternated reproaches, compliments, prayers and threats of vague consequences should he refuse to proceed with his (unfounded ) allegations of fraud. warning you at some point that you are taking “a big risk.” An initiative that raises legal questions for electoral experts.

The conversation would take place on Saturday. “The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry,” Trump allegedly said, “and there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, well, you’ve done a new calculation.” Raffensperger reportedly responded to the president that Trump’s data was wrong. “Look, all I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, one more than we have, because we won the state, ”Trump insisted,“ I have absolutely not lost Georgia. Absolutely not. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. The president, continues the Washington Post, later warned that if Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, his legal adviser, found no evidence of the illegal destruction of thousands of ballots in Fulton County, they could be sued. “It is a crime and you cannot allow that to happen,” he said.

Trump reported on Twitter today the phone call with Raffensperger, stating that Georgia’s secretary of state “does not want, or cannot, answer questions about the” under the table “scam, card destruction, out-of-state voters , dead voters, etc. You have no idea! “Raffensperger responded with another tweet:” With all due respect, President, what you say is not true. ”