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Donald Trump (Photo: REUTERS / Cheriss May / File Photo)
Current US President Donald Trump lobbied Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to recount the presidential vote in his favor. The state leadership convinced the head of the White House that this was impossible.
This is stated in the recording of an hour-long conversation between Trump and Raffensperger on January 2, which was made available to The Washington Post.
The president often changed the way he communicated when he spoke to fellow Republicans. As the newspaper writes, Trump tried to appease him, begged the Georgia secretary of state to do something and threatened him with indefinite criminal consequences. The president urged Raffensperger to recount the votes in the state, which could make Trump a winner even by one vote.
“Thus Look. 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 this state, “Trump said.
At the same time, Raffensperger and the general counsel of his office rejected Trump’s claims throughout the conversation. They explained that the head of the White House was placed on “discredited conspiracy theories”, and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory by 11,779 votes in Georgia was fair and accurate.
Trump continued to defend his position and wishes. Said it was up to Raffensperger to count the votes “No not bad. “During the conversation, he often repeated:” It can’t be that I lost in Georgia. Impossible. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. “
Raffensperger’s office declined to comment with WP about this conversation. The White House has also not yet responded to a request for comment.
However, even before the recording was made public, the president on his Twitter announced a conversation with the Georgia secretary of state.
“Yesterday I spoke with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. I was unwilling or unable to answer questions such as a scam regarding „Ballots under the table, “the destruction of ballots,” out-of-state “voters, dead voters and the like. He doesn’t understand anything at all!” – Trump wrote a few hours before the disclosure of the conversation.
Biden won the state of Georgia with 16 electoral votes. Trump has repeatedly demanded a recount in Georgia. This was done three times and even the votes were counted manually. However, on December 8 in Georgia, Joe Biden’s victory was officially approved.
On November 3, a general election day was held in the United States, when citizens elected, among other things, the president. On December 13, the vote counting was completed in every state in the United States: the majority was won by the Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden.
On December 14, the American electoral college confirmed Biden’s victory in the elections: he received 306 votes against the necessary 270. Donald Trump has 232 votes.
The United States Congress will finally approve the results of the presidential election on January 6.
The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has not yet admitted his defeat and describes the elections as rigged.
His team continues to dispute the results of the presidential election to no avail. The Supreme Court and courts in at least eight key states have rejected a number of demands by the Trump team and its supporters, including rejected and repeated trials.
Several states counted the votes at the request of the Trump campaign, and the accounts repeatedly confirmed the victory of their competitor.
Trump also suggested that he will run for president in 2024, which he could announce on the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Biden will take office as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. At this time, the United States continues «transition period “to transfer power to a new American leader.
