Donald Trump asked Georgia's Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to "get" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's victory.
The Washington Post, which obtained the recording of the long phone call (about an hour), in which the president alternates reproaches, flatteries, prayers and threats of vague consequences if he refuses to pursue his (unfounded) allegations of fraud, writes this admonishing him at some point that he is taking "a great risk".
An initiative that raises legal issues for election experts.
Despite pressure, Raffensperger and his Attorney General rejected the requests, explaining to the president that it is based on false conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Georgia by 11,779 votes is fair and accurate.
But Trump has counterattacked.
"The citizens of Georgia are angry, the citizens of the country are angry," he said.
"There is nothing wrong with saying you have recalculated," he added.
"Mr. President, the data you have are wrong," Raffensperger replied.
At one point the president confided to him: "all I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,789 votes, which is much more than we have. Because we won the state".