Yesterday, the Washington Post broke a bombshell story with an audiotape of Donald Trump calling Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to pressure him to “find” 11,780 votes that don’t exist to swing Georgia’s electoral votes to Trump. Not only did Trump bizarrely ask Raffensperger to somehow “find” just enough votes to make Trump the winner of the state, he went as far as to make a not-so-veiled threat if he refused to comply.
This is perhaps the clearest and most brazen example of Trump working to commit election fraud and abusing the power of his office—something he’s repeatedly accused Democrats of doing. Go figure.
Trump’s phone call was a desperate hail-mary. It was perhaps the clearest example we have of Trump attacking the heart of our democracy. And it was very likely illegal and certainly unethical and immoral. Worst of all, Trump was attempting to undermine the votes of millions of Americans. That’s the behavior of an authoritarian.