Donald Trump retweets claim two Republican leaders in Georgia 'will soon be going to jail'

Donald Trump retweets claim two Republican leaders in Georgia 'will soon be going to jail'
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US President Donald Trump has retweeted a post saying two Republican leaders who rejected his false claims of voter fraud "will soon be going to jail".

The two officials are Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Trump shared a tweet from Lin Wood, an attorney who has filed multiple lawsuits on the President's behalf in an attempt to help overturn November's election results.

"President Trump is a genuinely good man. He does not really like to fire people. I bet he dislikes putting people in jail, especially 'Republicans'," Wood tweeted.

"He gave Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail."

In the tweet, Kemp and Raffensperger are also pictured wearing face masks with the Chinese flag photoshopped onto them, which is possibly a reference to Wood's claims that China helped rig the election for the Democrats.

Donald Trump retweets claim two Republican leaders in Georgia 'will soon be going to jail'
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Trump criticised Kemp recently after he became the first Republican in almost 30 years to lose the state of Georgia when President-elect Joe Biden won.

Kemp and Raffensperger certified Biden's victory in Georgia, and on Monday (local time) the state's 16 presidential electors cast their votes for the President-elect in the electoral college.

Although Biden had gained 306 electoral college votes - more than the 270 needed to win the presidency - Trump still didn't concede and repeatedly challenged the outcome by falsely claiming there was widespread voter fraud.

Trump and his team have had over 50 legal challenges against the outcome dismissed over the past month, including in Georgia.

Although the President said he'd leave the White House if the Electoral College voted for Biden, he has since doubled-down on his claims on voter fraud.

"Swing States that have found massive VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes as complete & correct without committing a severely punishable crime," he wrote on Twitter in November.

After the Electoral College formally confirmed Biden's win, Senate majority leader and Republican Mitch McConnell congratulated the President-elect.

"Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result," he said during a press conference on Wednesday (local time). "But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20. The Electoral College has spoken."

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said now that McConnell has spoken, "enough is enough" and Trump should "end his term with a modicum of grace and dignity".