TRUMP CAUGHT ON TAPE TRYING TO STEAL U.S. POLLS

Forces Georgia poll chief to ‘find votes’

Washington: US President Donald Trump, in an extraordinary one-hour phone call, told Georgia’s election chief to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win and urged him to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the swing state in the November

3 election, according to a secretly-recorded audio of the conversation posted by a major American media outlet. The Washington Post reported that during the phone call on Saturday

Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secre

tary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his

defeat, a development that legal scholars described as a

a potential criminal act.

Washington, Jan. 4: US President Donald Trump, in an extraordinary onehour phone call, told Georgia’s election chief to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win and urged him to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the swing state in the November 3 election, according to a secretly-recorded audio of the conversation posted by a major American media outlet.

The Washington Post reported that during the phone call on Saturday Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat, a development that legal scholars described as a flagrant abuse of power and a potential criminal act. “The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated,” Trump told Raffensperger.

“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,” he said. Trump lost the election in Georgia by 11,779 votes. “Flipping the state is a great testament to our country. It’s a testament that they can admit to a mistake. A lot of people think it wasn’t a mistake, it was much more criminal than that. But it’s a big problem in Georgia, and it’s not a problem that’s going away,” he said.

“The people of Georgia know that this was a

scam, and because of what you’ve done to the president, a lot of people aren’t going out to vote [in the runoffs]. A lot of Republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president,” said the outgoing president. According to The Washington Post report, throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that Presidentelect Joe Biden’s 11,779vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate. “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong,” Raffensperger said. Trump reiterated that there is no way he lost Georgia. Trump has refused to concede to Biden, a Democrat. —