Donald Trump could be set to face bribery and obstruction of justice charges after his call to Gerogia investigator asking him to find fraud votes and become a national hero.
While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressured a lead investigator to “find the fraud” and said it would make the investigator a national hero.
The president’s call with the election investigator, first reported on Dec. 23 during a state review of voter signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County. That unprecedented review, completed in late December, didn’t find a single fraudulent absentee ballot.
During the call, Trump urged the official to “find the fraud” and promised that the official would become a “national hero,” a senior state official told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday.
Legal experts say the president may have violated laws against interfering with an ongoing state investigation by making the call. He is now being investigated.
Meanwhile, President Trump had urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘find’ enough votes to overturn the Georgia presidential election results and threatened Mr. Raffensperger if he failed to do so.
Nevertheless, House leaders are already moving to impeach the president over Wednesday’s events, which led to the death of five people, including 42-year-old Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick.
