Trump pressured Georgia to “find the fraud” through a phone call

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Atlanta – When election officials in Georgia verified signatures on envelopes for ballots mailed in a county in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the president Donald Trump demanding the lead investigator to “find the fraud” and has claimed that this could make him a national hero.

The call in December, described by a person aware of the matter and who requested anonymity to address the delicate nature of the discussion, is another link in the chain of the extraordinary pressure campaign that Trump has exerted. on state officials in their attempt to undo the results of the November election, which they lost to the Democrat Joe Biden.

This is one of at least 3 phone calls made in the course of a month between early December and early January, in which Trump sought help from high-level officials in Georgia to subvert the election, although he was denied on every attempt. Trump lost to Biden in Georgia by 11,779 votes.

The call for an investigator was a prelude to Trump’s January 2 call on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ask that election officials “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s victory. in the state. It happened when election officials were auditing the signatures on the envelopes of ballots mailed to Cobb County.

With the audit, in which more than 15,000 signatures were reviewed, no cases of fraud were found. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation collaborated in the audit of the firms.

For months, Trump and his allies have made false claims about the process of verifying the signatures in Georgia of the ballots mailed and about the results of the November election. Among other things, they demanded a signature verification audit.

The White House had not yet commented on the matter. The Washington Post was the first media outlet to report the call on Saturday. The media indicated that it retained the identity of the investigator, who did not respond to requests for statements, due to the danger of threats and harassment directed against election officials.

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