– Much further than Watergate – VG

“This is not déjà vu, it is much worse than what happened under Watergate,” Carl Bernstein, 76, told CNN on Sunday night.

He was one of two journalists who exposed the scandal that led to the resignation of former US President Richard Nixon in 1974.

In short, the people of Nixon had staged a robbery at Democrats’ headquarters to obtain information before the 1972 election.

– This is the definitive “smoking gun” recording, Bernstein says now about the audio recording of the telephone conversation between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperg, which was published by the Washington Post on Sunday.

Trump will run for office: – I just want to find 11,780 votes

The term “smoking gun” is used for evidence that plays a crucial role in a case.

“These are the images that show what this president is willing to do to undermine the electoral system and that he is trying illegally and immorally to initiate a coup,” Bernstein told CNN.

In the conversation, you can hear that Donald Trump is pressuring Raffensperger, who is responsible for the elections in Georgia, to find enough votes to reverse the election result.

– Listen: all I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state, Trump said, among other things.

Donald Trump confirmed on Twitter Sunday who has talked to Raffensperger. Neither the White House nor the Trump campaign apparatus has commented on the case, writes AP.

Decisive Senate Elections in Georgia: – We will win

Respond to the silence of the Republicans

The November elections in Georgia were so uniform that they had to be counted. More than five million votes were counted by hand, and Joe Biden was named the winner with 0.2 percent more votes than Donald Trump. The result prompted Trump to call for another recount, which also resulted in Biden’s victory. He defeated Georgia by 11,779 votes.

Trump has strongly opposed the conduct of elections in the state and claims that there has been massive electoral fraud. The state government, which belongs to Trump’s own party, has denied it.

The Republican Party is divided after Trump’s defeat in the presidential election.

On Saturday, eleven Republican senators came out and said they would challenge incoming President Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College when the votes are counted and formally passed in Congress on January 6. Since then, some Republican senators, including Mitt Romney, have opposed these attempts.

Watergate journalist Bernstein believes that Trump’s attempts to undermine the election outcome would have resulted in a lawsuit and conviction by fellow Republicans had it been any president other than Trump.

That’s what we should now hear from Republicans: ‘President Trump, resign, leave the White House. This is wrong and we will not tolerate it. “” We are not going to hear that, we have only heard from a few, “he told CNN.

Biden Advisor: – Pressure and Threats

On the democratic side, however, the reactions have been strong.

Bob Bauer, who is an adviser to incoming US President Joe Biden, says the audio recording shows how Trump during his time as president has tried to attack American democracy.

“This is sure evidence that a president pressured and threatened an official from his own party to repeal the legal and certified vote count of one state and fabricate another in its place,” he said.

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents New York, says she believes the call qualifies for a referendum.

– If it had been up to me, we would have voted for points of the superior court in the House of Representatives quite quickly, says the congressman who is popularly called “AOC” in a statement to the AP news agency.