Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is not hesitant to let President Donald Trump know what he thinks about his conversation with Georgia election officials.
“This is absolutely appalling. To every member of Congress considering objecting to the election results, you cannot- in light of this- do so with a clean conscience,” Kinzinger tweeted on Sunday.
This is absolutely appalling. To every member of Congress considering objecting to the election results, you cannot- in light of this- do so with a clean conscience. #RestoreOurGOP https://t.co/5UzrK4G0Jn
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) January 3, 2021
The Washington Post published audio of a phone call Trump had with Georgia election officials on Saturday asking them to “find” votes to overturn his defeat in the election, as IJR previously reported.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state,” Trump said during the conversation.
Trump added, “We won the election and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this and it’s going to be very costly in many ways and I think you have to say that you’re going to reexamine it.”
Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, also slammed Trump for his comments, as IJR previously reported.
“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,” Bauer said in a statement on Sunday.
He continued, “It captures the whole, disgraceful story about Donald Trump’s assault on American democracy.”
Trump previously launched attacks on both Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp (R) for how the state held the election.
In November, he called Raffensperger an “enemy of the people.”
Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to go after Kemp, as IJR previously reported.
“[Brian Kemp] should resign from office. He is an obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia, BIG! Also won the other Swing States,” Trump said.
