Depending on whom is asked, President Trump’s Saturday phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — during which he urged state officials to “find” votes that could overturn his loss in the state during November’s election — may have violated state and federal law.
Trump and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Raffensperger they wanted him to track down more than 11,000 ballots to flip the state that went to Biden by nearly 12,000 votes.
Legal experts and former White House officials took to social media through the weekend when news and audio of the phone call between Trump and Raffensperger were released by The Washington Post on Sunday.
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