US President Donald Trump still does not want to accept his election defeat so shortly before the handover to Joe Biden.
In a dubious phone call, he is now fighting for his position by all means.
Many recounts of votes and a few legal proceedings later, the incumbent
US president
still does not want to acknowledge
his
electoral defeat
.
US media are
now publishing telephone recordings showing how desperate
Donald Trump
appears to be.
He
made a blatant demand to
the
State Secretary of Georgia
.
Washington -
Donald Trump
has the
US presidential election in 2020
lost - still the reigning refuses
President
of the United States, however, defeat recognize.
His Democratic
challenger Joe Biden
and current President-Elect is due to be
sworn in
on
January 20th
.
Now Trump is apparently pulling out
all the stops
shortly before the Senatorial runoff election in
Georgia
.
According to a media report, he is said to have insisted in an unusual phone call for a subsequent
change in
the
election results
in this same state.
In an hour-long conversation, he
is said to have bluntly urged
State Secretary Brad Raffensperger
, who was responsible for holding the
Georgia
election
, to “find” enough votes for him and “recalculate” the result of the November election.
The
Washington Post
reported on Sunday about the conversation between
Trump
and
Raffensperger
that should have taken place the day before.
The US newspaper also published parts of a
recording of
the said telephone call, after
Trump allegedly described Raffensperger
as "clueless"
directly on
.
Donald Trump puts party colleagues under pressure: "It is not fair to take our victory"
Like the incumbent president,
Raffensperger is
himself a
Republican
.
On the phone,
however,
Trump
threatened
his party colleague that he was taking a “great risk” and that he might be guilty of a crime if he did not take action against the
election fraud
.
Admittedly,
Trump
narrowly
lost the election on
November 3, 2020
in the
state of Georgia
, as
Biden
was ahead there with “only” around 12,000 votes.
To be on the safe side, the
election results were
then counted twice - without
Trump's
claims
being proven
and evidence of
election fraud being
found.
Apparently
, the incumbent
US president
still does not want to
admit
his defeat in
Georgia
, so he
complained
about the “wrong result”
in a phone call with
Raffensperger
and claimed to have won the election.
I only want to find 11,780 votes ... because we won the state, "said
Trump
, according to
the
Washington Post
, on the phone.
"We won the election and it is not fair to take the victory away from us,"
Trump
continued.
Therefore
Raffensperger
should
check
the result again.
"But check it out with people who want to find answers," said the
US President
, who will soon be leaving office
.
Video: CNN broadcasts recordings of the phone call between Trump and Raffensperger
Brad Raffensperger: "We have to stand by our numbers"
In the recording, the responsible
State Secretary of Georgia
replied
: “We have to stand by our figures.
We believe our numbers are correct. ”In addition,
Raffensperger stated
that the results were also admissible in
person
.
"The problem you have is that the data you have is wrong," the
Home Secretary
said
firmly to
Trump
.
The
Washington Post
then no longer
reveals
more information
via the dubious
telephone
conversation
of party colleagues.
The article only goes on to say that the “rambling and sometimes incoherent conversation” shows how “obsessed and desperate” the
president is in the
face of his electoral defeat.
Audio: Trump berates Ga. Secretary of state, urges him to "find" votes https://t.co/Pibw9gBt1A
- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 3, 2021
Apparently,
Trump
still assumes that he can change the result in enough
US states
in his favor
to be able
to take up his
second term
as president. The published
telephone recordings
are more than explosive, as the runoff
elections for two Senate seats are due
in
Georgia
on Tuesday
. The result of this election could
tip
the majority of the Republicans in the
House of Parliament
in Washington
, they currently have 50 seats in the Senate and the Democrats 48.
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.