Recording a phone call could cause problems for former US President Donald Trump.
The Georgia Attorney's Office has opened an investigation.
Washington - It has been known for a long time that the former US President Donald Trump * tried on the phone to influence the chief investigator from Georgia * after the US election.
She should expose the fraud, because "something bad has happened", said the then president of the presidential election, which he thought went badly *.
And further: If the correct answer were revealed, you, Chief Investigator Frances Watson, would receive praise.
So far, only individual parts of the conversation have been made public, but now the
Wall Street Journal was
able to evaluate the entire six-minute call for the first time.
So Bacon replied, "I can assure you that our team is only interested in the truth and in finding information that is based on the facts."
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But Trump insisted on his point: “I won everything except Georgia.
And I won Georgia, I know that.
With a big gap.
People know it too. ”Trump's attempts to intervene in the independent review commission could now have consequences.
It has now been announced that the Fulton County Prosecutor's Office in Georgia has launched a criminal investigation into Donald Trump *.
At the time of the call, Chief Investigator Watson was checking more than 15,000 signatures in Cobb County for accuracy.
The investigator found no evidence of fraud, Joe Biden * was declared the winner of the Georgia election.
Trump also called on Watson on the phone call to devote himself to Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia.
According to him, Waton would have to “go back two years” because then she would “find things that are unbelievable,” said the former US president.
Trump then speaks of "dishonesty", which has its "main artery" in Fulton.
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Georgia Republican Secretary of State's Office spokesman Brad Raffensperger said following the release of the tape to
CNN
, “This phone call is just one more example of Minister Raffensperger's public statements reflecting what is personal Conversations were told: We would obey the law, count every legal vote and investigate all fraud allegations. ”That is exactly what they did.
Trump and his office have not yet responded to inquiries.
The Fulton County Attorney's Office has now called for documents that may be relevant to the investigation to be retained.
The US TV broadcaster
CNN
reports a source that says it is investigating a total of two phone calls from Trump.
One of the talks, according to the report, is a phone call from January in which Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” votes to steer the Georgia election results in his direction.
The second call is the one now
made public
by the
Wall Street Journal
.
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