You know, I'd like to say that I was surprised by this phone call over the weekend, but sadly, I'm not. Just yet another example of Trump being Trump and trying to intimidate others into going his way. And, I also find it very interesting that there was a specific number of votes that Trump wanted GA to find. The number was 11,780, which is just one more vote than what he lost to Biden on. Sorry, but Trump can't accept his loss, and he's doing everything that he can to try to get people to steal the election for him.
Incidentally, GA has had 3 recounts since the election was held, and each and every time, the vote count said that Biden had won. And, if Trump is telling them to "find" more votes for him, that sounds very much like he's trying to steal the election and not Biden.
The more that Trump was able to get away with, it seems the harder he pushes to get away with even more. And, I had predicted a couple of years ago that if Trump wasn't kicked out by the Senate (even though he was impeached by the House), he would think that he was bulletproof and would push for even more and more crazy stuff. Sadly, that prediction came true, because there is no president in the history of this country who has done what Trump has done. If this had been a Democrat, Republicans would be screaming bloody murder and would be doing their best to remove him.
Do I want to see Trump impeached over this? Not really, because he only has 2 weeks left of his term, and will be outta there before charges could be brought against him, meaning that it would be a waste of taxpayer money and valuable legislation time.
And, as far as the conversation being "leaked", well, hate to tell you but most conversations between elected officials are part of the public record unless they contain classified information (which this phone call doesn't have any of). Trump should have realized when he took the job that he was going to be in the limelight, and also realized that every thing he said was going to be recorded and made available to the American people, but, sadly, he didn't.
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Trump confirmed in a tweet Sunday that he had spoken with Georgia's secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, a day earlier.
Audio snippets of the conversation were posted online by The Washington Post. A recording of the call was later obtained by The Associated Press from a person who was on the call.
The president, who has refused to accept his loss to the Democratic president-elect, is heard telling Raffensperger at one point: “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.”
Georgia's certified election results show Biden won the state's Nov. 3 election by 11,779 votes.
