NAACP slams Trump's call with Georgia official as a 'racist attack'
NAACP President Derrick Johnson is slamming Trump's phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and, in a new statement Monday, calls on the Fulton County District Attorney to investigate any state law violations committed by Trump after he "pressured" Raffensperger to recalculate votes in his favor.
"This is a racist attack on Black voters. President Trump's desperate and futile attempts to invalidate and falsify votes cast by Georgia voters add to a growing list of criminal acts that must be addressed," Johnson said in a statement.
Trump, in an hour-long phone call with Raffensperger on Saturday, falsely claimed it was "not possible" for him to have lost in The Peach State, and asked the secretary to "find" the exact number of votes he would need -- just one vote over the margin that he trailed Biden by -- so he could be declared the winner of an election that three separate counts confirmed he lost.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in statement earlier Monday, did not rule out the possibility of filing state charges against Trump or his aides involved in the call, saying that it is her understanding Raffensperger's Elections Division has been requested to investigate the call and that, upon the conclusion of their investigation, the matter can be referred to both her office and the state's attorney general Chris Carr for potential charges.
-ABC News' Beatrice Peterson and Alexander Mallin