The disclosure of a phone call between Trump and the Georgia state secretary demanding that the election results be rigged, otherwise he will be imprisoned

 

In the most recent chapter of outgoing US President Donald Trump's refusal to accept defeat in the November 2020 presidential elections and his attempt to undermine the results, the Washington Post reported Sunday evening January 3, 2021, the details of a phone call in which the man sought to pressure an American official to turn On Biden's victory.

The American newspaper published an hour-long phone call that Trump made on Saturday with Georgia State Secretary Brad Ravensberger in which Trump appears urging the secretary, who is a Republican, to rig the elections by "recalculating" the results and "finding" enough votes to be declared victorious. .

Threat from Trump to an American official 

During the call, Trump oscillated between trying to compromise with Ravensenberger, flattering him, and threatening him, and during their conversation, Trump issued a vague threat to both the state secretary and his legal advisor saying that if they did not find that the thousands of ballots in Fulton County had been unlawfully destroyed to prevent the investigators - a claim without Any evidence - they will be subject to criminal accountability.

Trump said, according to the phone call with the Georgia state secretary, "This is a criminal offense." "And you can't let that happen. That's a huge risk to you and Ryan, your attorney."

Meanwhile, Trump also said that voters should punish Brad Ravensburger, and two Republican Senate candidates, Senator Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue, at the polls in the upcoming run-off election to keep their seats. 

Trump said, "You have a big election coming up and because of what I did to the president - you know, the people of Georgia know this was a scam." “Because of what you did to the president, not a lot of people will come out to vote, and a lot of Republicans will vote negatively, because they hate what you did to the president. Okay? But they will vote.

Despite the threats, Brad Ravensberger did not give in to Trump, telling the president, "Well, Mr. President, your challenge is the data you have wrong."

 Judicial rejection of the coup against the elections 

On the other hand, a US appeals court rejected on Saturday a request by a Republican congressman that allows Vice President Mike Pence to cancel President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.

A three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit in the Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's decision on Friday to dismiss Representative Louis Gomart's claim that Pence had the power to nullify Biden's victory when Congress meets on Wednesday to formally certify the election result.

While US President Donald Trump claims without evidence that the elections witnessed widespread fraud and has so far refused to concede defeat.

Trump's close ally, Gomart, filed the lawsuit with Arizona Republicans, saying Pence had the power to reject the electoral college votes ex officio in the Senate.

Republican efforts to block the handover of power 

Meanwhile, US Senator Ted Cruz said on Saturday that he would lead an effort with 10 Republicans in the Senate to object to President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the presidential elections when the results of the Electoral College vote are reviewed in Congress on January 6, in a symbolic step to an extent. Big has little chance of preventing Biden from taking office.

While Cruz's bid poses a challenge to other Republican leaders in the Senate, they say the Senate's role in certifying election results is largely ceremonial, and they look to avoid a protracted debate over the results in Congress.

Senator Cruz and 10 other senators also said in a statement that they intend to vote against the election results in swing states that President Donald Trump claims has witnessed fraud but has not provided evidence. Members said Congress should immediately appoint a committee to conduct an emergency review of election results in those states within ten days.

On the other hand, Democrats and some moderate Republicans denounced seeking to challenge the result, describing it as an undemocratic measure.

Biden campaign spokesman Michael Gwen described the move as a play unsupported by any evidence.

It is noteworthy that Biden beat Trump by 306 votes to 232 in the electoral college.