It was a perfect phone call last Saturday when President Donald Trump made the call from the White House to put the squeeze on Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

He wanted Raffensperger to manipulate enough votes to throw Georgia into Trump's win column.

There was just one glitch.

Mr. Raffensperger recorded the entire conversation. This is what every public official should do when a call comes from this president.

Say this about the mafia.

They always expected electronic bugs to be planted by the FBI, and so they avoided speaking in full sentences and saying things that might...