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Donald Trump, in taped call, pressured Georgia official to 'find' votes

I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, said Trump

President Donald Trump speaks about early results from the 2020 US presidential election in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Photo: Reuters
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Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Michael D Shear & Stephanie Saul | NYT Washington
US President Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes to overturn the presidential election and vaguely threatened him with “a criminal offense” during an hour long telephone call on Saturday, according to an audio recording of the conversation.

Trump, who has spent almost nine weeks making false conspiracy claims about his loss to President-elect Joseph R Biden Jr, told Brad Raffensperger, the state’s top elections official, that he should recalculate the vote count so Trump, not Biden, would end up winning the state’s 16 electoral votes.

“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more