Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
This weekend, the news The Washington Post published a phone call where the current US President, Donald Trump, called Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of Georgia to "find" those 11,780 votes needed to turn around the result of the last general election held on November 3; the same one where his Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, was finally elected to the US presidential succession.
In the call, which lasts just over an hour, you can hear US President Donald Trump trying to persuade Secretary Raffensperger to avoid a "big risk".
However, Brad Raffensperger remained stoic in front of the president when he told him that, in the state of Georgia, "a fair election" was held and that the vote count figures "are correct".
As President Trump threatened Georgia's Secretary of State, social networks began to react to the leak of The Washington Post with the hashtag #TrumpTapes -replicated more than 400,000 times before midnight on Sunday- and trends such as #TrumpBegged and #TrumpMeltdownwhere Twitter users mocked the tycoon for "begging" Raffensperger, managed to get to the top of the general trends -"trending topics"- of Twitter in the US.
In states like Georgia and Washington, trends showed terms like "Secretary of State"that they reached more than 1 million tweetsminutes before midnight on Sunday. "Ga SoS" - "Georgia Secretary of State", with 35,000 results, Fulton County -127,000 tweets-, #ImpeachTrump, Nixon -by the Watergate case, also exposed by The Washington Post- also reached high positions already reached at night by exceeding the barrier of 6,000 tweets.
Let's start with outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, who, via his Twitter account, stated "I spoke with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwell or unable to respond to issues such as 'ballots under the table', ballot destruction, out-of-state 'voters', deaths and more. He has no idea!".
However, Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, before The Washington Post leak the call, he said on Twitter: "With all due respect, President Trump, what you say is not true. The truth will come out."
At noon, The Washington Post, leaked the call held between Trump and Raffensperger.
Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General, said: "While listening to the recording, please note this federal criminal statute"and attached title 52 of the U.S. Code, which establishes criminal liability in electoral matters.
American writer Don Winslow called in several tweets to ask what other calls the president might have made that could be linked to acts of corruption during his time in the White House, adding that "Any Republican who does not demand Trump's immediate resignation is a perpetual accomplice.".
Daniel S. Goldman, attorney at the U.S. House of Representatives Congregation, who also participated in the trial of impeachment to Donald Trump pointed out that the recording could be considered a direct threat to Raffensperger: «“This can be expensive for you.”. I've handled extortion cases within the mafia with similar words."
"Your best defense should be your dementia»said attorney Michael R. Bromwich:
Senator David Shafer, president of the Republican Party in Georgia, despite evidence by The Washington PostThe president, who is also a member of the U.S. Congress, said the released recording "is substantially edited and omits the stipulation that all discussions were for the purpose of resolving a dispute and were confidential under federal and state law.
Amy Gardner, from The Washington Post responded to Shafer: "This is false. We published the entire call, from beginning to end. There's no mention of it being a confidential settlement meeting. None."
Bernie Sanders, a state senator from Vermont, also spoke out on the issue, saying, "No, Donald Trump, there are no votes I have to find. The American people have spoken, and at 12:01 p.m. on January 20, you will no longer be president:
Prominent U.S. political journalists equated the election results with an attempted coup by the Republicans themselves in the U.S. Senate against Donald Trump:
It should be noted that no multimedia material was uploaded to Twitter from The Washington PostHowever, it was Keith Edwards, advisor to John Ossoff, who uploaded the video recording, whose reproductions, only in the social network reach more than 12 million reproductions, 84 thousand times marked as "I like" and generated a discussion of more than 16 thousand responses:
