President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to "find” him enough votes to overturn the presidential election and vaguely threatened him with "a criminal offense” during an hourlong telephone call on Saturday, according to an audio recording of the conversation.
Trump, who has spent almost nine weeks making false conspiracy claims about his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, told Brad Raffensperger, the state’s top elections official, that he should recalculate the vote count so Trump, not Biden, would end up winning the state’s 16 electoral votes.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said during the conversation, according to a recording first obtained by The Washington Post, which published it online Sunday. The New York Times also acquired a recording of Trump’s call.