“11,780 votes”. They released a recording of Donald Trump pressuring an official to win Georgia

The outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump, maintained in-depth telephone communication with the Georgian State Secretary, Brad Raffensperger, in which urged him to have you enough votes to overturn the election result the presidential elections on November 3, in which Trump was defeated by the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.

The influential newspaper The Washington Post reported on this conversation, which lasted over an hour, and posted a 4.32-minute clip on his website in which the Georgian official, also a Republican, was heard telling “He just wants to find 11,780 votes.”

During the long conversation, sometimes a monologue from Trump, the still president pressures the Georgian secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor.

First, Trump praised Raffensperger as an introduction to ask you to act to reverse the outcome. But faced with the refusal of the official, threatened to bring him to justice and the filing of criminal proceedings against him, at the same time as warning him that he was running a “great risk” in not accepting his demands.

“The Georgian people are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there is nothing wrong with saying, you know? I think you have failed the calculations,” we heard in the report. one of Trump’s recordings. The Washington Post.

In response, Raffensperger replied: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge you have is that your data is wrong. “

Trump himself posted on his personal Twitter account that he spoke to Raffensperger on Saturday and addressed issues such as the Fulton County outcome or “Georgia voter fraud.”

“Yesterday I spoke to Fulton County Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling or unable to answer questions like the ‘bulletins under the table’ scam, destruction of ballots, other state “voters”, dead voters and more. He has no idea! Wrote the outgoing president.

Raffensperger also responded via Twitter: “With all due respect, President Trump: what you say is not true. The truth will come out. “

From Raffensperger’s office, they recalled that the election investigation did not reveal any cases of unregistered voters, although there are “a handful” of alleged cases of voting on behalf of deceased people.

As for the so-called “votes under the table”, they refer to the electoral cases which are used to transport the votes and which are kept under the tables during the voting process, for which the electoral authorities have excluded that they are fraud .

“We think our numbers are correct,” Raffensperger told Trump in sections where the Republican president left him a loophole to meet his demands to find a way to find the votes that confirm his victory in Georgia.

Biden won the Southern Georgia state by 11,779 votes and took all 16 Georgian voters to the Electoral College, the body responsible for electing the US president, for this reason, Trump asked Raffensperger to get 11,780 votes, one more.

In December, Georgian authorities certified the victory of Biden, who was the first Democrat to win in that state since Bill Clinton did so in 1992 (1993-2001); and, for weeks, they had to resist pressure from the president, who he does not admit his defeat by alleging without proof that there was fraud.

Trump has filed dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits to challenge the result without evidence in several key states where Biden won, and he’s also pressured state officials, including those in Georgia, to manipulate the vote. American.

Biden’s victory became definitively official on December 14, when it was confirmed by the US Electoral College.

The White House declined to comment on the release of this recording. from the Washington Post, which sparked outrage in Washington.

Telam Agency