President Trump has been accused of crossing ethical, moral and potentially legal boundaries in his phone call urging the secretary of state in Georgia to revise the election results to make him the winner rather than Joe Biden. David Charter examines the most controversial excerpts and their possible consequences“So look. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”Mr Trump’s exhortation to “find” the exact number of votes required to reverse the election outcome is seen as potentially the most damaging remark. Under federal law anyone who “knowingly and wilfully deprives, defrauds or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a state of a fair

Source: The Times January 05, 2021 00:00 UTC