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Donald Trump could face legal proceedings after his resignation from the presidency anyway
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Donald Trump is still acting President of the United States for a little over two weeks.
Apparently he still did not accept his defeat.
After an explosive phone call to the Georgia State Secretary of the Interior, Brad Raffensperger, Democrats want to launch an FBI investigation into the outgoing US president.
Trump's phone call to Raffensperger contained calls for violations of electoral laws, argued Congressmen Ted Lieu and Kathleen Rice in a letter to the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray.
A recording of the hour-long conversation was published on Sunday in the Washington Post.
Trump said, among other things, that he wanted 11,780 votes to be found for him so that the state would go to him.
"I can't have lost Georgia." Democrats Lieu and Rice emphasized, "The evidence of Trump election fraud has now come to light." A Democrat from Georgia’s electoral commission, David Worley, also called for an investigation Trump up.
The election result has yet to be confirmed by Congress
Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia in the November 3rd election by a little less than 12,000 votes.
As in other states, the Trump side spoke of electoral fraud, but could not present any evidence of it.
The results were recounted twice in Georgia, the end result changed only slightly as a result.
Raffensperger reiterated that no evidence of widespread electoral fraud had been discovered.
Before Biden's inauguration on January 20, the results from the individual states must be certified in the US Congress on Wednesday.
Some Republicans from the House of Representatives and the Senate have announced that they will appeal against results from individual states during the procedure.
The disruptive action can delay the confirmation of Biden's election victory by a few hours, but has no prospect of actually changing anything in the election outcome.
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