Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
This weekend, the news The Washington Post published a phone call where the current U.S. President, Donald Trump, called Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of the State of Georgia to "find" those 11,780 votes needed to change the outcome of the last general election held on November 3, where his Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, was finally elected for the succession of the U.S. presidency.
In the call, just over an hour long, U.S. President Donald Trump can be heard trying to persuade Secretary Raffensperger to avoid a "big risk."
However, Brad Raffensperger remained stoic in front of the president by telling him that, in the state of Georgia, "a fair election" was held and that the vote count figures "are correct".
Faced with an hour of threats by President Trump to the Georgia 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 "pleading" with Raffensperger, managed to reach the top of the overall trends ??trending topics?? of Twitter in the U.S.
In states such as Georgia and Washington, trends showed terms such as. Secretary of State?, which reached more than 1 million tweetsminutes before midnight on Sunday. "Ga SoS" Georgia Secretary of State, with 35,000 results, Fulton County ?127 thousand tweets? #ImpeachTrump, Nixon ?for the Watergate affair, also exposed by The Washington Post? also reached high positions by the end of the night, surpassing the 6 thousand tweets barrier.
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 either indisposed or unable to respond to issues such as 'ballots under the table', destruction of ballots, '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 phone call held between Trump and Raffensperger.
Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General, said: "As you listen to the recording, please take into consideration this federal criminal statute."and attached Title 52 of the U.S. Code, which establishes criminal responsibilities in electoral matters.
U.S. writer Don Winslow called, in several tweets, to wonder what other calls the president would have made that could be linked to acts of corruption during his time in The White House and added that: "Any Republican who does not demand Trump's immediate resignation is a perpetual shill.".
Daniel S. Goldman, an attorney in the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Caucus, who also participated in the trial of impeachment toward Donald Trump noted that the recording could be considered a direct threat to Raffensperger: "?This can be expensive for you.?. I have handled cases of extortion 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 Postsaid the released recording "is heavily edited and omits the stipulation that all discussions were for the purpose of resolving litigation 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 is no mention of it being a confidential settlement meeting. None."
Bernie Sanders, Vermont state senator, also weighed in, saying, "No, Donald Trump, there are no votes for you to find. The American people have spoken, and at 12:01 p.m. on January 20, you will no longer be president."
Personalities in U.S. political journalism equated the election results to a coup attempt by the Republicans themselves in the U.S. Senate against Donald Trump:
It should be noted that no multimedia material was uploaded to Twitter by The Washington Post.However, it was Keith Edwards, advisor to Jhon Ossoff - candidate for the U.S. Senate - who uploaded the recording in the form of a video, whose reproductions on the social network alone have reached more than 12 million reproductions, 84 thousand times marked as "Like" and generated a discussion of more than 16 thousand responses:
