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Trump Pressured Georgia to 'Find The Fraud' in Earlier Call

Associated Press

   ATLANTA - While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures
   on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro Atlanta county, President
   Donald Trump pressed a lead investigator to "find the fraud" and said
   it would make the investigator a national hero.

   The December call, described by a person familiar with it who spoke on
   the condition of anonymity in order to describe the sensitive nature of
   the discussion, is yet another link in the chain of the extraordinary
   pressure campaign waged by Trump on state officials as he sought to
   overturn the results of the November election, which he lost to
   Democrat Joe Biden.

   It is one of at least three phone calls, held over the course of a
   month between early December and early January, in which Trump sought
   help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election --
   only to be rebuffed each time. Trump lost to Biden in Georgia by 11,779
   votes.

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