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 didn’t respect the constitution.

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

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

The former president has denied the charges and said, next week, he will release ‘irrefutable’ evidence of the ‘Georgia ‘election fraud’ that should see all charges ‘dropped’ against him and his co-conspirators. It is his fourth indictment.

Trump was indicted for the fourth time Monday in Georgia.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back at Trump’s statement that he would produce his own report on the 2020 election.

‘The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus,’ he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

One of the pieces of evidence in the indictment is an hour-long January 2021 phone call Trump had with Raffensperger, who, as secretary of state, was in charge of elections in Georgia. 

Georgia officials recorded the call and the contents leaked.

Raffensperger stood by the Georgia election results, which had been counted and confirmed three times prior to Trump’s call. Joe Biden won the state by .25% of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to carry Georgia since Bill Clinton.

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

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

‘We have won this election,’ Trump told Raffensperger, a Republican.

Trump then raised a series of allegations. 

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

‘And you can’t let it happen and you are letting it happen. You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,’ Trump said.

According to prosecutors in Georgia, that constituted a ‘solicitation of violation of oath by public officer.’

The conspirators engaged in a felony offense by asking the official to be involved in ‘unlawfully altering, unlawfully adjusting, and otherwise unlawfully influencing the certified returns of the election,’ prosecutors say.

Raffensperger also testified before Congress’ January 6th committee. Much of that material gathered was used by special counsel Jack Smith in his federal indictment of Trump on election interference.

‘The numbers are the numbers,’ Raffensperger said during the hearing, in response to voter fraud allegations. ‘The numbers don’t lie.’

He won re-election as secretary of state in the 2022 election and said his top priority is to ensure the people of Georgia get an accurate and fair election in 2024.