Trump issued post-election threat

Fresno CA

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Then-President Trump was "threatening" him and asking him to "fudge" the numbers for the Georgia’s 2020 presidential election last year, Georgia's secretary of state claims in a new book. Brad Raffensperger writes in "Integrity Counts" that Trump asked him to "find" enough votes for him to overtake Joe Biden, who squeaked out a win in the state with 11,779 more votes than Trump. "For the office of the secretary of state to ‘recalculate’ would mean we would somehow have to fudge the numbers," Raffensperger, a Republican, writes in the book, which came out Tuesday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The president was asking me to do something that I knew was wrong, and I was not going to do that." "President Trump is using what he believes is the power of his position to threaten Ryan [Germany, general counsel for the secretary of state’s office] and me with prosecution if we don’t do what he tells us to do," he writes, according to FOX 5 of Atlanta. "It was nothing but an attempt at manipulation." Trump said they would be taking a "big risk" if they didn't report alleged fraud. (This guy wouldn't be my first choice for president!)