Carl Bernstein says Trump's call asking a Georgia official to help him overturn Biden's win is 'worse than Watergate'

 Carl Bernstein, who helped divulge President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, says President Donald Trump's tries to strain a Georgia legit to overturn the presidential election is "a long way worse." 

On Sunday, The Washington Post posted audio from a name the president had with Georgia secretary of country Brad Raffles perter on Saturday, in which he advised him to "find" sufficient votes to overturn President-go with Joe Biden's win there. 

During an look on CNN on Sunday, Bernstein turned into requested if the tape gave him déjà vu from Watergate — wherein it turned into discovered that President Nixon ordered a break-in to scouse borrow marketing campaign secrets and techniques from the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.

"It's now no longer déjà vu. This is some thing a long way worse than occurred in Watergate," Bernstein said.

Bernstein defined the tape as "the remaining smoking gun" that suggests what Trump "is inclined to do to undermine the electoral machine and illegally, improperly, and immorally try and instigate a coup."

"In every other presidency, this tape might be proof sufficient to bring about the impeachment of the President of the United States, his conviction with inside the Senate of the United States, and truely a right away name via way of means of the participants of Congress — together with of his very own party — that he surrender immediately.

"That's truly what we should be listening to on the moment."

Since information of the decision broke on Sunday, a DC watchdog group and Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have known as for a brand new impeachment of Trump. Vice President-decide on Kamala Harris known as the communication a "boldfaced, ambitious abuse of power." Republicans have stayed on the whole quiet. 

Bernstein {said stated">stated it became not going that Republicans might activate Trump over the information, and stated that became one in every of the largest contrasts to Watergate. 

"The one element we ought to consider from Watergate is that the heroes of Watergate had been Republicans who might now no longer tolerate Richard Nixon's conduct," Bernstein stated. 

Bernstein has been a common critic of Trump, and it is now no longer the primary time he has stated one in every of his scandals became worse than Watergate.

In September, responding to his former reporting accomplice Bob Woodward's taped conversations with the president, wherein Trump admitted to downplaying COVID-19, Bernstein stated the admission became "even greater devastating than Nixon's tapes."