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Gabriel Sterling before the press in Atlanta: “Death threats, threats of violence, intimidation.
This is too much"
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A senior electoral officer in Georgia has made an urgent appeal to incumbent US President Donald Trump in the face of ongoing doubts about the election results and threats of violence against those involved in the election.
“Show your size, stop it.
Step in, tell your supporters: Don't be violent.
Stop threatening.
All of this is wrong, it's not American, ”Gabriel Sterling said in a statement to the press in Atlanta.
Addressing Trump, the official said: "You have the right to go to court," he said.
But he appears to be unable to “stop getting people to commit possible acts of violence.” Sterling warned, “Someone is going to get hurt.
Someone is going to be shot.
Someone will be killed. "
Sterling said he was furious at the threats electoral officials had to endure in the southern state.
Trump was narrowly defeated by election winner Joe Biden there.
A second vote count is currently in progress.
However, those responsible do not expect any change in the result this time either.
Trump has still not admitted his electoral defeat against Biden and spreads unfounded claims almost every day about alleged irregularities in the election that would have cost him his victory.
Sterling accused Trump and senators of failing to condemn threats.
It's about elections and thus about the backbone of democracy.
"All of you who didn't say a damn word were complicit," he said.
“Death threats, threats of violence, intimidation.
This is too much."
Trump and his confidants have been raising the mood for weeks against those responsible for elections in Georgia, for example against Republican State Secretary Brad Raffensperger, who claims to have received death threats.
Most recently, Trump made derogatory comments about Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp, whom he feels let down in his attempts to overturn the election result.
On Tuesday he asked him to do something about the election result.
"You allowed your state to be betrayed," Trump accused his party colleague on Twitter.
He called on him to call off runoff elections for two Senate seats in January, the result of which could break Republican dominance in the important Congress Chamber.
On Monday, one of the president's lawyers, Joseph diGenova, called on a television show and said that Christopher Krebs, the former head of the U.S. cybersecurity agency, should be shot.
Krebs was fired by Trump after he said there was no evidence that voting was compromised.
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