Posted on 01/03/2021 11:32:17 AM PST by bitt
President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions. 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.” Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.
Trump dismissed their arguments. “The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry,” he said. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.” Raffensperger responded: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong.”
At another point, Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.” The rambling and at times incoherent conversation offered a remarkable glimpse of how consumed and desperate the president remains about his loss, unwilling or unable to let the matter go and still believing he can reverse the results in enough battleground states to remain in office. “There’s no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call. “There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”
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I keep saying it these bastards need to be decapitated they are no good SOBs media snakes. Without these outlets the rats and the swamp would’ve been buried already 6 feet under! This is it ...there’s no turning back.. a civil war has been foisted upon us and we need to respond properly! We need to storm the mediapukes main quarters and bury the snake!
They’re making the narrative that Trump is trying to steal the election and if he does get his second term this will be grounds to impeach him again.
Soap box, Ballot box, Jury box, all stolen from us. That leaves us one box.
The Democrats have declared a war with no rules or moral or ethical restraints. They openly committed voter fraud, disenfranchising millions of American voters and circumventing democracy deliberately and maliciously. They have no standing to complain.
The empire strikes back.
TRUMP had his lawyer on the phone with him...I’m sure that the call was vetted.
Also, I’ll bet that Trump leaked the call!!!
He’s giving the derps a chance to avoid jail time, IMO..or lessen the penalties..
I just listened to the recording and I hear no problem with what Trump is telling him. Nothing that I haven’t heard on any news channel.
Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff
Trump’s contempt for democracy is laid bare. Once again. On tape.
Pressuring an election official to “find” the votes so he can win is potentially criminal,
And another flagrant abuse of power by a corrupt man who would be a despot, if we allowed him.
We will not.
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1345807237256626176
Even if he only talked to Republican legislatures from Georgia, you know there is a RINO in there somewhere.
Maybe Trump did this, but so what? He was right. The SOS was wrong. Is it a bad thing for someone to ask someone to do the right thing?
#WARNING our team members who live in Atlanta are being attached. One team members home took 5 shots through the windows in a drive by. Right through his daughters bedroom window. The #BiasAndHateMustStop pic.twitter.com/RbcIilAAyq— JovanHuttonPulitzer ™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer (@JovanHPulitzer) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer/status/1345795312489738240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I know it’s anecdotal but I ha e several republican friends that told me they voted for Biden but voted straight republican down ticket.
bullshit
What a blatantly false news article. I could stop after a sentence or two. Good grief... it’s one thing to disagree but the left is just criminal.
So your friends didn’t benefit from this presidents 4 yrs in office?
No offense but either your friends are idiots or you are lying.
SCHIFFFFT is an idiot..and trying to save his own skin..
Sure they did. I’m flat out calling you a liar.
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