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The President of the Republican Party in Georgia, David Schaeffer, said that President Donald Trump has filed two lawsuits against the state secretary over the leak of a secret phone call regarding the election results.
“President Trump has filed two lawsuits – one federal and one local – against Georgia State Secretary Brad Ravensberger. The phone call, which Ravensberger recorded in secret, was a classified settlement discussion of the litigation still pending,” Schaeffer wrote on Twitter last night.
President @realDonaldTrump has filed two lawsuits – federal and state – against @GaSecofState. The telephone conference call @GaSecofState secretly recorded was a “confidential settlement discussion” of that litigation, which is still pending.
– David Shafer (@DavidShafer) January 3, 2021
In both Georgia and Washington, DC, a “unilateral consent” law applies, which means that any person involved in a telephone conversation does not need approval from the other participant to record it.
However, Schaeffer claimed that the audio tape published by The Washington Post removed from it the requirement that all discussions were for the purpose of litigation settlement and were classified under federal and state law.
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“The Washington Post” revealed that Donald Trump asked Brad Ravensberger in a phone call to “find” about 12,000 votes to reverse the difference in votes with Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Trump acknowledged in his tweet Sunday, the fact that he had made a call with Ravensberger, noting that the latter was “unwilling or unable to answer” his questions about the manifestations of “fraud” in the elections.
Ravensburger responded to the president by also saying in a tweet: “With all due respect President Trump: What you say is not true.”
For his part, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler considered that Trump may have exposed himself to criminal responsibility by threatening officials.
Source: American media
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