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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Tim Pool is sure running with this as “proof” that Trump is trying to overthrow a duly monitored and certified election. That Trump is urging others to “find enough votes to overthrow his ‘defeat ‘”. And that Lin wood is leading Trump down a conspiracy ridden rabbit hole. I never liked or trusted Tim Pool. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s sympathetic to the deep state-RINO cause. Let the fireworks begin.
While I have moved on in this election, I am thoroughly disappointed at these people who released a recording of this call. This recording of Trump and releasing this and other private calls is very annoying.
The entire recording was released.
Apparently my sarcasm is being mistaken. Just joking....
Wow you move on easily.
Sometimes it takes an asshole.
I will never believe that Biden beat Trump in Georgia. Never.
@KanekoaTheGreat
· Dec 3, 2020
GEORGIAPolice cars revolving light
2,506 felons voted.
66,248 underage registered.
2,423 voted w/out registration.
1,043 address a Post-Office.
4,926 registered late.
10,315 dead people.
395 cast ballots in another state.
15,700 filed national change of address.
40,279 moved.
100+ affidavits.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1345561566175842306
I voted for, and work for the campaign, for Trump in 2016. I, and my wife and daughter, voted for him in 2020 too.
Lol, but they’re ok with Biden?
The problem is the election was stolen “legally”. All of these states did things which violate their own laws. The courts and legislatures refused to reject those illegal votes after the fact.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1345795453338742785
@disclosetv
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JUST IN - #Georgia’s Secretary of State Raffensperger recorded the one-hour phone call with President Trump from yesterday and passed it to the Washington Post.
Biden is the one who can be impeached the second he takes office, if he takes office, and Democraps have no grounds to object because they impeached Trump for doing what Biden ADMITTED to on video tape!
Trump spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the “ballots under table” scam, ballot destruction, out of state “voters”, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!
The employees (communists) at the Washington Post are being paid to destroy Trump, so they lack credibility. They work tirelessly to spin anything Trump does and says into a negative.
Brad Raffensperger failed to address each issue and concern in plain English, like there was no answer to the question about ballots under the table, ballot destruction, dead voters, etc. Why could not Brad simply state the “facts” and claims about dead voters? Instead he dismissed the claims out of hand, not a satisfactory answer to anyone!
The Washington Post could have asked why was Brad so evasive and not forthcoming? If he was confident that the election was secure, would he not welcome challenges, and address and dismiss each challenge in terms easily understood by the voters?
Georgia’s wiretapping law is a “one-party consent” law for purposes of making audio recordings of conversations. Raffensperger gave his consent when he recorded the call. No violation of the law there.
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