The Washington Post Has Outed Their Source for the Bogus Trump Phone Call Story and It's Time for CNN and Others to Do the Sam

Last week, the Wall Street Journal broke what should be viewed as the top media story of the past decade… at least. In a story headlined Trump Call to Georgia Lead Investigator Reveals New Details, the Wall Street Journal published a verbatim transcript of a telephone call between President Trump and the chief election fraud investigator for the office of the Georgia secretary of state, Frances Watson.

The alleged contents of this conversation had been part of the national conversation ever since January 9 when Washington Post reporter Amy Gardner published a story claiming, based on a single anonymous source, that President Trump had attempted to pressure Ms. Watson into creating evidence of fraud where all right-thinking people know that all voting in Georgia, especially in Fulton County, was totally on the up-and-up. The story blew up. It slid neatly into the Pantheon of Evil Acts By Trump worshiped by the left, the media, and NeverTrump. Through the miracle of journalisming, something we lay folks can’t be expected to understand, the anonymously sourced story was quickly and independently confirmed by NBC, ABC, USA Today, PBS, and CNN.

When President Trump was impeached after leaving office for giving a speech on the National Mall on January 6, this unsourced, though now multiply “corroborated,” allegation found its way into the “impeachment brief” submitted by the House “impeachment managers,” see page 10 if you care to wade through this dross. And, they, relying upon that integrity and sense of fair play for which progressives are famous, even used it in their impeachment arguments.

What made the Wall Street Journal story such a bombshell is that it showed that quotes attributed to President Trump had been manufactured out of thin air. The statements where it could be arguably claimed that he was encouraging Ms. Watson to manufacture cases of fraud to help him win the election did not exist. That’s right. Did. Not. Exist. For reasons known only to the Washington Post, they decided to run a cheap, political hit on President Trump. For reasons known only to Amy Gardner, she decided that running a major story based on nothing more substantial than a game of telephone and was able to convince her editors that it was a good idea.

Once it became obvious that the Washington Post had the Piltdown Man of journalism on its hands (read The Washington Post Quietly Corrects Months-Old Propaganda About Trump’s GA Call), it had to burn its source or admit that it didn’t have one.

The Washington Post reported on the substance of Trump’s Dec. 23 call in January, describing him saying that Watson should “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero,” based on an account from Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state, whom Watson briefed on his comments.

Fuchs is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s former campaign manager, both for his successful 2015 run for the Georgia legislature and his 2018 run for Secretary of State. She’ll have to answer for her own motives in making up a conversation and seeking out a national media outlet to distribute the falsehood. Just joking. Of course, she won’t have to answer for squat because “believe women” and #OrangeManBad. I’d just note that if you check the story archive of Amy Gardner, it looks like Gardner was using Fuchs for stories for some months. And there is also the small matter of how the only recording of this call was deleted and discovered in a computer “trash” folder. Because you delete copies of phone calls from the President of the United States to state election functionaries all the time, but, I suspect, any innate sense of curiosity over this will be suppressed.

Now that the Washington Post has burned Fuchs down, there is still unresolved business. NBC, ABC, USA Today, and CNN all claim to have independently verified Fuchs’s story (read The Real Scandal Behind the Washington Post-Trump Scandal). Though other outlets have now flagged the inaccurate reporting, CNN, naturally, has stealth-edited their stories to give the appearance that they were correct all along. Pretty shameful… or it would be shameful if they didn’t already employ Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, and Chris Cuomo. The rewrites of the stories all finger Fuchs as the source, but their original reporting claimed independent verification. It is unclear whether Fuchs was the anonymous source to multiple outlets, whether other anonymous sources were carrying forth the same lies, or if the other outlets simply took the Washington Post reporting at face value and lied about having corroborated the story.

This is significant. If Fuchs was the sole source, it could be written off to a senior staffer, emotionally invested in protecting her boss carrying out a hit on the President of the United States to take the heat off the absolute clown car that was the 2020 election in Georgia. You could, by the way, do this without fear of contradiction if you’d ordered the only copy of the audio file recording the conversation destroyed (read The Story of the WaPo ‘Scoop’ and the Discovery of the Trump Recording Is So Much Worse Than It Appears and GA’s Sec of State Ofc Has Some Explaining to Do). If Fuchs energized the communications shop inside the Secretary of State’s office to hit multiple outlets, then it starts looking like Raffensperger knew, or should have known, what was going on. If everyone lied about sourcing and relied on the Washington Post (this is my favorite theory), then we have a master class in how anonymous sources are used in the traditional media.

One final note. If the Daily Caller or Free Beacon or even the Washington Examiner had pulled a bullsh** stunt like this, they would be out of business (read The Washington Post Doesn’t Deserve to Exist After Making up Trump Quotes to Own the Orange Man). Facebook and Twitter would have de-platformed them by now (read Based on Brian Stelter’s Own Arguments, CNN and Washington Post Should Be Deplatformed). They would be ritually sacrificing staffers to try to keep advertisers from fleeing, and they would still fail. The Washington Post and Amy Gardner will simply move ahead. They will continue to sling wild conspiracy theories based on uncorroborated single sources, and they will continue to be treated as though they are serious newsgathering organizations.

Nah. She was recently "promoted" to the Board to "certify" electronic voting records! Not dated, but this was the latest press release for her selection for the 2019-2020 year:

"(ATLANTA) -- Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger today appointed Deputy Secretary Jordan Fuchs to serve on the Board of Directors for the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Fuchs will serve as Georgia’s national representative within the organization’s governing body.

“Our office has led the charge to reform Georgia’s elections with common-sense solutions that prioritize efficiency and promote integrity - and our immediate action to join ERIC was a major victory for all of Georgia’s voters,” said Fuchs. “I am honored to represent our state at the national level as we continue to aggressively pursue solutions that ensure a better experience at the polls for our voters and election officials alike.”

ERIC is a multistate partnership that uses a sophisticated and secure data-matching tool to improve the accuracy and efficiency of state voter registration systems. Through ERIC, states share voter registration information to improve the integrity of voter lists. The national non-profit uses cross-state data matches to flag voters who may have registered in multiple states, moved out of state, or passed away – alerting election officials so that they can update voter rolls accordingly, consistent with federal and state law.

“I have no doubt that Deputy Secretary Fuchs will continue to advance the best interest of our state and work with national stakeholders and industry leaders to make elections more secure, accurate, and accessible for every Georgia voter,” said Secretary Raffensperger.

Fuchs has been appointed as an ERIC board member for the 2019-2020 term and will continue to carry out her regular duties as Georgia’s Deputy Secretary of State for the duration. ###"

She is the one government official most mentally, emotionally, and financially invested to "proving" her own system was "perfect"

The Wash/Post retracted its bogus report WRT Trump’s Dec. 23 call about "finding votes."
The W/P reveals it based its account on Jordan Fuchs, Ga deputy secy of state, Raffensperger's underling.
Fuchs is also Raffensperger’s campaign manager for his (A) 2015 win for the GA legislature, and, (B) 2018 win for Secy of State.

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REFERENCE --- CAUGHT ON TAPE: Brad Raffensperger Begged for Illegal Chinese Votes [SPEAKING MANDARIN]
https://nationalfile.com ^ | January 4, 2021 | Patrick / FR Howley Posted on 1/4/2021, 10:52:54 AM by Red Badger
Georgia Republican Secy of State Brad Raffensperger was placed into office in the GA House of Representatives in 2015 by a powerful network of Mandarin-speaking Chinese people in the US. NATIONAL FILE has obtained video of Raffensperger speaking at an event with Mandarin-speaking Chinese people, begging the Chinese to get him more than 100 votes to secure his victory in the election (which he ended up winning by 159 votes).

A Mandarin-language newspaper even explained the strategy to place Raffensperger into office by use of “absentee ballots” that could be illegally obtained by one Chinese person and distributed to others. Raffensperger is trying to stop Communist China’s geopolitical foe President Donald Trump from gaining a proper accounting of the votes in the 2020 presidential election.

HERE IS AUDIO OF RAFFENSPERGER SPEAKING MANDARIN TO THANK THE CHINESE PEOPLE FOR HELPING HIM WIN THE ELECTION IN 2015.
HERE IS A LINK TO A MANDARIN-LANGUAGE ARTICLE FROM 2015 in the “Atlanta Chinese Life” publication at Americachineselife.com, a publication supporting Democrats in the January 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs (the article can be translated into English via Google Translate, and states the following — emphasis added:)

“One of the reasons why we did not participate in elections in the past was that “one more vote, one less vote has no effect on the results of the election.” This time is different. In the first round of election, there were only two candidates left in the 50th District of the House of Representatives where Johns Creek was located: Brad Raffensberger (sic) and Kelly Stewart. They are all conservative Republicans, with almost the same political opinions. Only 2,500 of the 25,000 voters in the first round voted: Brad was only 26 votes behind Kelley. Covfefe Coffee

Brad took the initiative to approach the Asian community to understand and listen to our voices. He visited the Chinese Dance and Culture School in the city center the previous weekend. Last Saturday he visited the Atlanta Modern Chinese School with more than 500 students. On Sunday, he hosted 30 Chinese at home to talk about his ruling philosophy. As a city councillor, he also participated in the award ceremony of my boy scout team and spoke on behalf of the city government…

According to statistical calculations, we only need 100 Chinese votes this time to determine the outcome of the election and make Brad a victory. He will represent our voice in the state legislature in the future. We have already boasted about Haikou with him and guaranteed 100 votes. This is an excellent opportunity for us Asians to show their strength. Your vote has never been so important. Election day is Tuesday, February 3. If you can’t vote in person on the day of something, I can apply for an absentee ballet (sic) for you. After you receive it, you can fill in and send it out. Due to the tight mailing time, if you need, please email me vale@PingMortgage.com. In addition, in the municipal council election in September this year, Chinese people are likely to stand for election. Thank you for your attention…Xiao Yu”

(NOTE: Georgia law forbids people applying for absentee ballots for other people except if the person is out of the county temporarily or if the person applying is a direct relative of the voter).

HERE IS A 2017 ARTICLE IN WHICH THE SAME CHINESE-PUBLICATION BRAGS ABOUT HANDPICKING RAFFENSPERGER FOR OFFICE, stating, “After a month of hard work and help from the Chinese, he finally won the final election…Shun aroused fighting spirit, so I and Brad reported the number of Chinese votes every hour. In the end, Brad won the victory. The numbers we quoted are very close, obviously the Chinese votes played a key role in winning.”

HERE IS A VIDEO OF RAFFENSPERGER SPEAKING AT THE EVENT, FOLLOWING A MANDARIN SPEAKER, BEGGING THE CHINESE PEOPLE FOR VOTES. Here is how our source breaks down the video: “- 0:48 in the video he starts talking about absentees. – 1:12 he starts giving the group a specific number of votes he needs. – 1:27 is the quote “Out of little acorns, great trees grow” which is an especially poignant quote, considering that those few hundred votes translated into big promises in return down the road. – 3:12 – 3:47 is the quote about needing a few hundred votes again, and then talking about how close/tight the election is.” HERE IS MORE OF RAFFENSPERGER SPEAKING AT THE EVENT HERE IS RAFFENSPERGER COORDINATING WITH THE CHINESE PEOPLE ON VOTING AT WEB SITE: PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT WHERE RAFFENSPERGER BEGGED FOR CHINESE VOTES speaking Mandarin.

AND NOW ----The puzzle pieces come together perfectly.

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<><> Hate-filled Pelosi launched her second impeachment of Trump using this unsourced, multiply “corroborated,” allegation;
<><> the GA lie found its way into the Pelosi “impeachment brief”, and even found its way into the impeachment arguments.
<><> all of it orchestrated by Nanzi----proud user of the "wrap-up smear." (see below)

Its crystal clear Nanzi was part and parcel of the entire press debacle in her vengeful jihad to "get Trump."

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Here's Pelosi's affirmation of a classic Democrap scam:

Pelosi actually described the "wrap-up smear technique" in a press conference.
Apparently destroying people is no big deal to a Democrat, as long as it gets them back in power.

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In 2017, at a press conference, Pelosi blithely revealed the tried-and-true Democrat demonization tactic called the “wrap-up smear.”

PELOSI: “We Democrats call it the ‘wrap-up smear. You smear somebody, with falsehoods and all the rest,
and then you merchandise it to the media,” Pelosi said matter-of factly, as if she were giving out a recipe for apple pie.

SOUND FAMILIAR? This patented Democrat criminal MO was used against Justice Kavanaugh.

Hillary is extremely good at this——in 2016 she’d “leak” what she said was damaging info on Trump to the media.

Then when the smear was published-—she’d wave around the clipping to show how she was the superior candidate.

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REFERENCE / Gregg Jarrett: Newly declassified handwritten notes authored by Obama's CIA Director, John Brennan, show that on July 28, 2016, Brennan
briefed then-Pres Obama that Clinton approved a plan to smear Trump with false accusations about collusion with Russia to help him win.

JARRETT: The 'Russia hoax' lie created by Hillary Clinton was the dirtiest political smear ever.
The genesis of the smear came from the "smartest women in the world" candidate Hillary Clinton.

Yet, Jarrett put the cart before the horse.

Obama was obsessed w/ Hillary serving his "Third Term." Hillary could not have pulled it off by herself.
Clearly, Obama came up w/ the idea, and signed off on it so Hillary could proceed.

Inventing the lie was easy for Obama....a pol steeped in the sewers of Chicago politics. Spreading the lie was even easier.

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