No, that's not what I mean.
I mean how Trump tried to literally bribe his way to an election victory then used his supporters and threats of what they'd do to try and get a victory he didn't have.
You have the phone call to Raffensperger, secretary of state for Georgia.
Trump said "I just want to find 11,780 votes".
CNN has obtained the full January 2 audio call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Trump is joined on the call by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and several lawyers.
www.cnn.com
The for the Jan 6th thing he did the same, use his people to put pressure on others. He escalated and didn't give a damn about democracy or anyone else other than himself. He sees being president the same as running a company. You put pressure on people, any way you can, no matter the law.
One of the first things he said was:
" I think it’s pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25-30,000 people a rally and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense."
Trump seemed to equate rally sizes with votes. He is doing a simple sales technique of LYING to get what he wants.
Then he made claims about people who couldn't vote because, according to Trump, someone had already voted for them, and he claimed ballots were dropped. And not in small numbers. Plus vacant address votes and people voting who weren't registered to vote etc etc.
He equated the Republicans winning the House in Georgia as a must that he had won Georgia. Trump can't envisage a situation where 30,000 would vote Republican for the House but wouldn't vote for him. That's his problem. It doesn't make sense for anyone who understand POLITICS.
A lot of what Trump said to Raffensperger is just complete nonsense, he was putting pressure on the guy by attacking, attacking, attacking with whatever he thought might stick.
“And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.” He later pleaded: “So what are we going to do here folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.”
This is the sort of thing that someone says because they're looking to change the result, the pressure's already there, then he's changed tact, now he's pleading.
“You know, that’s a criminal offence. And you know, you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan [Germany], your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”
Then comes intimidation, ie, you'll get locked up if you don't do what I want. The reality is that Raffensperger is less likely to get locked up for doing this, and more likely to get locked up for doing what Trump wanted.