The media are lying about Trump's phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State Raffensperger

American Thinker ^ | 01/04/2021 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

The mainstream media and Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, are utterly disgraceful, dishonest, and manipulative people.  Raffensperger released a private phone call that the media immediately claimed — falsely — showed Trump begging Raffensperger to fraudulently find enough votes for Trump to win.  In fact, Trump called Raffensperger to get him to stop obstructing the fraud investigation.  As Trump explained during the call, evidence proves Trump won Georgia by a massive margin, only to have victory stolen through equally massive fraud.  Trump sought to avoid litigation forcing Raffensperger to do his job, which is to make at least a minimal effort to clear away enough fraud to allow Trump his actual and honest victory in Georgia.

Here are just two examples of the media's dishonest claim that Trump was trying to force Raffensperger to commit fraud.  As you can see, their premise is that there is no evidence of fraud, so any action on Trump's part to claim victory is itself fraud.  Theirs is a deliberate example of circular logic, where their premise and conclusion are the same thing.

Washington Post: "The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking 'a big risk.'"

CNN: "In excerpts of the stunning one-hour phone call Saturday, Trump lambasted his fellow Republican for refusing to falsely say that he won the election in Georgia and repeatedly touted baseless claims of election fraud."

Here's what really happened on the phone call.  First, Trump wasn't the only person on the phone.  Also present were Mark Meadows, Mike Pompeo, and multiple attorneys.  

[SeekAndFind]

Contrary to what the media implied, Trump was not operating off the premise that he lost Georgia. If that had been the case, it would indeed have been wrong for Trump to beg for Raffensperger to “find” votes for him.

Instead, Trump was operating from the assertion that he won Georgia. He opened the call with a strong recitation of the facts showing massive fraud on Raffensperger’s watch. According to Trump’s evidence, he didn’t lose by 11,780 votes; he won by well over 300,000 votes, including votes for Trump that disappeared and illegal votes for Biden.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

I hope everyone involved in releasing the call is sued and any attorneys involved get disbarred.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

You could have just made the headline “The media are lying...” and the story would have been complete.

[abbastanza]

Fox is involved again? Did I read that right?

[metmom]

Of course because they are liars.

It’s who they are.

It’s what they do.

[Vendome]

They are completely lying

I listened and they president laid out facts in detail while Georgia representatives lied saying nothing happened

[going hot]

News readers and their handlers have surpassed crooked lawyers/politicians in degree of deceit and cheat.

[familyop]

Trump Ga. Transcript Shows Case for Vote Fraud, President Acted Properly
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-georgia-raffensperger/2021/01/03/id/1004057/

[metmom]

He set up the consummate trap and they fell for it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Raffensperger appears to be one of the Abrams sisters’ boys.

[jpp113]

I once had a client that, upon questioning by a reporter, unwittingly leaked confidential settlement information - in particular, an offer by the other side. Neither I nor anyone at the firm had anything to do with this, in fact we had vehemently advised against the client himself talking to the media instead of us doing so.
The US federal court chewed my a** royally for violation of settlement discussion confidentiality, even though we were completely unaware of the breach as it happened, and the client was in jeopardy of being defaulted as a sanction - millions at stake.
Point here is - just the fact that settlement discussions were recorded, never mind released to the public, violates those same legal canons. In a prominent story being twisted by the MSM, there are federal and state lawsuits that were in confidential settlement discussions - details of which were revealed to the world by one of the parties by recording and then releasing audio recordings of the settlement discussions. Worse yet, the media is pushing biased, false and misleading editorial commentary on this blatant flouting of Federal Court ethical standards.
The recording and disclosure is completely unacceptable and should be denounced by all US Judges and practicing attorneys. Any attorneys who support the practice should be held accountable by the respective state bar associations and disbarred as ethically unfit.

[Vaduz]

Raffensperger released a **private** phone call

Media never lets the facts in the way of a story crimes are ok for some.