U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Secretary of State and Republican Party member, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to recount the votes in the state to favor him in the 2020 presidential election.
The information is advanced by the Washington Post, which got a recording of a telephone conversation held between the two.
At some point, writes that American publication, you can hear Trump trying to convince Raffensperger to give victory to the Republicans in that state. On the other end of the line, Georgia’s secretary of state is heard saying that Trump was in possession of false information – alleged irregularities in the votes – and that he could not do what the President asked.
According to the same Washington Post, Donald Trump tried several times to coerce Brad Raffensperger, insisting that he had lost the elections in that state due to irregularities and that the results could not be released.
At one point in the conversation, Trump openly says, “Look, all I want is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes ”. Raffensperger never relented.
By mid-November, Georgia’s secretary of state had publicly denounced pressure not to give Democrats victory in that region, including death threats, by directly pointing the finger at Republican-related figures.
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