includes the abominable Zurcher’s “analysis”!
BBC: 29m ago: US election: Trump tells Georgia election official to ‘find’ votes to overturn Biden win
Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris called Mr Trump’s comments “a bold abuse of power”...
Since the 3 November vote, Mr Trump has been making unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud...
All 10 living former US defence secretaries have urged President Trump not to question the election results in an opinion piece for the Washington Post. The group also said he should not involve the military in voting disputes, an idea that’s been mooted by some of Mr Trump’s supporters...
The president then threatened the official with possible legal consequences...
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said Mr Trump was “unhinged and dangerous” and that his call to Mr Raffensperger merited “nothing less than a criminal investigation”...
Moderate Republican Adam Kinzinger also tweeted: “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.”
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
In the final weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump is struggling for ways to hold on to power. His latest act was to berate, beg and threaten Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” the votes necessary to move the state to his column.
Never mind that there has been no credible evidence of substantive fraud...
The call is reminiscent of Trump’s “I would like you to do us a favour, though” conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky, where he pressured and cajoled a foreign leader for political help.
That contact resulted in Trump’s impeachment. The brazenness of Trump’s Saturday call may make it more difficult for the president to rally political support to his cause...
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838
BBC even lies in pidgin english!
BBC: Trump tapes: US President Donald Trump tell Georgia election official Brad Raffensperger to ‘find’ votes, cancel Joe Biden win
7 hours wey don pass
Dem don record di US President, Donald Trump, as im bin dey tell Georgia top election official to “find” enough votes to cancel di election result...
Since di 3 November vote, Mr Trump don dey allege say wuru-wuru dey di election without providing any evidence...
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-55526726
It makes no difference what these has-beens think! The only defsec who matters is the one who controls the guns. And Trump should absolutely use that option to prevent the United States from falling to a fraudulent power. His oath was that he would defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and DOMESTIC...