Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger breaks silence following Trump’s FOURTH indictment detailing their call during which the ex-president demanded the state overturn the 2020 election results

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger broke his silence on Donald Trump’s indictment in the state, saying the former president was not respecting the constitution.

‘The most fundamental principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the Constitution and the rule of law. You either have it or you don’t,” said Raffensperger.

Trump and 18 others were indicted on 41 counts Monday by an Atlanta grand jury in a massive racketeering case that accuses the former president and some of his allies of orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election to make.

The former president has denied the charges, saying next week he will release “irrefutable” evidence of the “Georgian” electoral fraud that would require all charges against him and his co-conspirators to be “dropped”.

Trump was indicted for the fourth time in Georgia on Monday.

Republican Governor Brian Kemp opposed Trump’s statement that he would prepare his own report on the 2020 election.

“The 2020 elections in Georgia have not been stolen. For nearly three years, no one with evidence of fraud has failed to report to a court under oath. Our elections in Georgia are safe, accessible and fair and will remain so for as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that should be our focus,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Among the pieces of evidence in the indictment is an hour-long phone call in January 2021 that Trump had with Raffensperger, who was in charge of Georgia’s election as Secretary of State.

Officials in Georgia recorded the conversation and the contents leaked.

Raffensperger stood behind Georgia’s election results, which had been counted and confirmed three times prior to Trump’s call. Joe Biden won the state with 0.25% of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to carry Georgia since Bill Clinton.

Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who is now among the indictments, arranged for Trump to call Raffensperger.

It was during the call that Trump asked the state’s top election official to “find 11,780 votes.”

“We won this election,” Trump told Raffensperger, a Republican.

Trump then made a series of allegations.

“They are shredding ballots in my opinion, based on what I’ve heard. And they’re removing machines and they’re moving it as fast as they can, which are both criminal finds,” he said, according to a translation of the call.

“And you can’t make it happen and you make it happen. You know, I mean, I’m letting you know you’re making it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, that’s one more than we have,” Trump said.

Prosecutors in Georgia said that was an “invitation to breach of oath by an official.”

The conspirators pleaded guilty to asking the official to be involved in “unlawfully altering, unlawfully altering and otherwise unlawfully influencing the certified results of the election,” prosecutors say.

Raffensperger also testified before the January 6 committee of Congress. Much of that collected material was used by Special Counsel Jack Smith in his federal indictment against Trump for election interference.

“The numbers are the numbers,” Raffensperger said at the hearing on voter fraud allegations. ‘The numbers don’t lie.’

He won re-election as Secretary of State in the 2022 elections and said his top priority is to ensure that the people of Georgia receive accurate and fair elections in 2024.