The US state of Georgia has opened an official investigation into the efforts of former US President Donald Trump to cancel the results of the presidential elections in the state.
The investigation came after recording a phone call to Trump on January 2, during which he pressured State Secretary-General Brad Ravensberger to change the state election results, by finding enough votes to cancel his defeat in the presidential race.
“The office is investigating the state secretary’s office in the complaints it receives,” a spokesman for the Secretary-General’s office for Georgia, Walter Jones, said in a statement to Reuters, describing the investigation as a “fact-finding and administrative investigation.” He stressed that “any other legal efforts will be left to the Attorney General.”
In the details of the call, from which the “Washington Post” obtained a recording, Trump threatened Ravensberger with “vague criminal consequences” if he refused to comply with his demands, but the latter and the general counsel of his office, Ryan Germney, “rejected Trump’s demands,” noting that the president approves On “the exposed conspiracy theories, and that Biden won by about 11 thousand and 779 votes in the state of Georgia was fair and accurate.”
During the call, Trump repeated the phrase: “There is no way to lose results in Georgia. There is no way. We have won hundreds of thousands of votes.”
The trial of the elders
Trump himself faces an unprecedented second trial, Tuesday, in the Senate, whose members will have to determine whether or not Trump actually instigated the Capitol attack.
Senators will experience a controversial precedent, in deciding whether to remove a president who is no longer in office and who remains a center of gravity in his party, without the power that was bestowed upon him by the White House.
The measures will focus on the chaos of January 6, when hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the headquarters of Congress and clashed with police, trying to disrupt the validation hearing on Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Malay News
International Desk
