Biden Adviser: Trump’s Call With GA Secretary of State Is ‘Irrefutable Proof’ of His ‘Assault’ on Democracy
Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to President-elect Joe Biden , is blasting President Donald Trump after The Washington Post published audio of a phone call he had with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During…
Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, is blasting President Donald Trump after The Washington Post published audio of a phone call he had with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
During the phone call, Trump can be heard pressuring Raffensperger to “find” votes to change the state’s presidential election results.
In a statement on Sunday, Bauer said, “We now have irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind a state’s lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in is place.”
“It captures the whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump’s assault on American democracy,” he added.
Read the statement below:
The Washington Post published an excerpt of Trump’s call with Raffensperger where he can be heard telling the secretary of state that “the people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry” about the election results.
“There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated,” he added.
He continued to press Raffensperger on a series of baseless allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia as he asked whether ballots were shredded or voting machines were tampered with.