{"id":3225,"date":"2021-01-04T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:03:32","slug":"trump-scandal-overflows-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/trump-scandal-overflows-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Scandal Overflows Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"888\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1.jpg 888w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1-450x401.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/v-1-780x695.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, the news <em>The Washington Post<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As President Trump threatened Georgia's Secretary of State, social networks began to react to the leak of <em>The Washington Post<\/em> with the hashtag <strong><em>#TrumpTapes<\/em> <\/strong>-replicated more than 400,000 times before midnight on Sunday- and trends such as<strong> <em>#TrumpBegged<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>#TrumpMeltdown<\/em><\/strong>where Twitter users mocked the tycoon for \"begging\" Raffensperger, managed to get to the top of the general trends -<em>\"trending topics\"<\/em>- of Twitter in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In states like Georgia and Washington, trends showed terms like <strong>\"Secretary of State<\/strong>\"that they reached <strong>more than 1 million tweets<\/strong>minutes before midnight on Sunday. <strong>\"Ga SoS\"<\/strong> - \"Georgia Secretary of State\", with 35,000 results, <strong>Fulton County<\/strong> -127,000 tweets-, <strong>#ImpeachTrump<\/strong>, <strong>Nixon<\/strong> -by the Watergate case, also exposed by <em>The Washington Post<\/em>- also reached high positions already reached at night by exceeding the barrier of 6,000 tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let's start with outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, who, via his Twitter account, stated <em>\"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!\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1345731043861659650\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, before <em>The Washington Post<\/em> leak the call, he said on Twitter: <em>\"With all due respect, President Trump, what you say is not true. The truth will come out.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Respectfully, President Trump: What you&#039;re saying is not true. The truth will come out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViYjTSeRcC\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViYjTSeRcC<\/a><\/p>- GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaSecofState\/status\/1345753643593687040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At noon, The Washington Post, leaked the call<\/strong> held between Trump and Raffensperger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive : \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\": In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NTT3hTvcrR\">https:\/\/t.co\/NTT3hTvcrR<\/a><\/p>- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1345792166715600897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General, said: <em>\"While listening to the recording, please note this federal criminal statute\"<\/em>and attached title 52 of the U.S. Code, which establishes criminal liability in electoral matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As you listen to the tape consider this federal criminal statute. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eqoP1cVob5\">pic.twitter.com\/eqoP1cVob5<\/a><\/p>- Eric Holder (@EricHolder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricHolder\/status\/1345899387067772929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>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 <em>\"Any Republican who does not demand Trump's immediate resignation is a perpetual accomplice.\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Any Republican who doesn&#039;t demand Trump&#039;s immediate resignation is forever complicit.<\/p>- Don Winslow (@donwinslow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donwinslow\/status\/1345848387132772353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel S. Goldman, attorney at the U.S. House of Representatives Congregation, who also participated in the trial of <em>impeachment<\/em> to Donald Trump pointed out that the recording could be considered a direct threat to Raffensperger: <em>\u00ab\u201c<strong>This can be expensive for you.<\/strong>\u201d. I've handled extortion cases within the mafia with similar words.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"It's gonna be costly to you.\" I've charged extortion in mob cases with similar language. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wB0jV9Mkhl\">https:\/\/t.co\/wB0jV9Mkhl<\/a><\/p>- Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielsgoldman\/status\/1345805850640838658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"Your best defense should be your <strong>dementia<\/strong>\u00bb<\/em>said attorney Michael R. Bromwich: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unless there are portions of the tape that somehow negate criminal intent, \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\" and his threats against Raffensperger and his counsel violate 52 U.S. Code \u00a7 20511.  His best defense would be insanity.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZAtRgiRQmz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZAtRgiRQmz<\/a><\/p>- Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrbromwich\/status\/1345807776031899648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator David Shafer, president of the Republican Party in Georgia, despite evidence by <em>The Washington Post<\/em>The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The audio published by @TheWashingtonPost is heavily edited and omits the stipulation that all discussions were for the purpose of settling litigation and confidential under federal and state law.<\/p>- David Shafer (@DavidShafer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidShafer\/status\/1345868685605543940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Gardner, from <em>The Washington Post <\/em>responded to Shafer: <em>\"This is false. We published the entire call, from beginning to end. There's no mention of it being a confidential settlement meeting. None.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is false. We published the entirety of the call, from start to finish. There is no mention of it being a confidential settlement meeting. None. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Q9btWZmep\">https:\/\/t.co\/1Q9btWZmep<\/a><\/p>- Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmyEGardner\/status\/1345893247776940038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, Donald Trump, there are no votes for you to find. The American people have spoken and at 12:01 pm on January 20, you will no longer be president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ae9eT9ekIR\">https:\/\/t.co\/ae9eT9ekIR<\/a><\/p>- Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1345834999707299840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">There are 11 Republican senators in the United States who will not recognize the result of the presidential election that Donald Trump overwhelmingly lost on January 6. In Latin America, we call this an \"attempted coup d'\u00e9tat\". What will they call it in the United States? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16Q42wwdmU\">https:\/\/t.co\/16Q42wwdmU<\/a><\/p>- JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jorgeramosnews\/status\/1345797645231661062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that <strong>no multimedia material was uploaded to Twitter from The Washington Post<\/strong>However, 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: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. WaPo just released a recording showing President Trump attempting to blackmail Georgia&#039;s Secretary of State to overturn the election.<br><br>Listen: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/33SO6Tyx8u\">pic.twitter.com\/33SO6Tyx8u<\/a><\/p>- Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithedwards\/status\/1345796238722129923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristian Carlos. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. Este fin de semana, el informativo The Washington Post public\u00f3 una llamada telef\u00f3nica donde el actual presidente de los EE. UU., Donald Trump, llam\u00f3 a Brad Raffensperger, secretario del estado de Georgia para \u00abencontrar\u00bb aquellos 11 mil 780 votos necesarios para virar el resultado de las pasadas elecciones generales [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,10],"tags":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-3225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"category-cover","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-ccj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}