President Donald Trump on a December 23 phone call pressured

Georgia's lead elections investigator to "find the fraud" responsible

for his election loss, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

The president reportedly told the investigator they would be a

"national hero" should they find the evidence he requested,
according to the report. The Post's reporting is based on an
anonymous interview with a person familiar with the call who
asked not to be identified because of the "sensitivity" of the
conversation, according to the report. 

The report did not name the investigator who spoke with the
president.

The White House did not immediately return Insider's request for
comment Saturday.

The Post's latest report follows its report from about a week prior
that Trump in early January pressured Brad Raffensperger,
Georgia's Republican secretary of state, to find enough votes to
overturn his loss in the state. Trump lost the state of Georgia by
about 12,000 votes in one of several key losses that paved the way
for President-elect Joe Biden's victory. 

The call with the elections investigator took place about a week
prior to the president's call with Raffensperger, according to the
Post report. It took place just before the Christmas holiday when
the investigator was looking into reports of ballot fraud in Cobb
County, according to The Washington Post.

As the Post reported, Raffensperger had greenlit an investigation

into claims that officials in Cobb County had improperly accepted
ballots with signatures that did not match those on file, but
officials found the claims were without merit.

Raffensperger confirmed to The Post that Trump had called the

elections official on December 23 but said he wasn't sure of the
specifics of the call.
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