Trump Asks Georgia Election Officials To Cancel Election Results, Leaked Telephone Records

JAKARTA - The President of the United States (US) Donald Trump is again making a scene about the US Presidential Election. Leaked tapes of her conversations with top election officials in Georgia regarding the recount of voting results. The Washington Post got the tape and leaked it.

According to Al Jazeera, Trump asked the official to recount the election results in his favor. In the one-hour conversation Trump also posed a kind of threat if the official did not comply.

During the conversation, Trump continued to try to have the election results in Georgia canceled. In fact, the elected president, Joe Biden won with 11,779 votes.

The results of audits and recounts conducted in Georgia previously won Joe Biden. The results will be approved and ratified by Congress on January 6.

Trump is also known to have discussed similar matters with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger via phone calls. Trump said he wanted to get 11,780 votes, one point more than Biden's achievement.

"The Georgians are angry, the people in the state are angry. And, there is nothing wrong with saying you have recalculated," Trump said.

"Mr. President, the challenge you have is, the data you have is wrong," Raffensperger replied in the conversation.

This is not the only time Trump has attacked the minister from the party he supports. Trump has even attacked Raffensperger repeatedly since the 3 November 2020 election.

During the telephone call, Trum was discovered along with a number of officials. Such as Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell and general counsel for Raffensperger, Ryan Germany.

Inevitably, this leak of Trump's conversation rocked Washington. Reported by Al Jazeera, the White House, the Trump and Meadows Campaign Team did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. Even so with the Raffensperger Office.

Al Jazeera correspondent Al Fisher reports from Atalanta, Georgia that the footage is incredible that it has come out of the Oval Office of the White House, after the recording of President Richard Nixon in the era of the 1970s.

The leak of this voice recording received a strong response from the Democratic Party camp. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris denounced it as a "voice of despair" and "abuse of power by the president of the United States".

Meanwhile, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff considered Trump's comments to be potentially criminal.

“Trump's contempt for democracy is exposed. Again, on tape. Pressuring election officials to 'find' a vote so that he or she can win is potentially a criminal offense. And the flagrant abuse of power by the corrupt who would be despicable, if we let it. We will not, "Schiff wrote on Twitter.