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‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’ In hour-long phone call, Trump pushed GA GOP leaders to recalculate election in his favor

Posted by ty97 Jan 3 '21, 10:23

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 his assertions, explaining that Trump 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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html (www.washingtonpost.com)

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This should be prosecuted. - pmb Jan 3, 11:41
The dumbest thing is even if they somehow flipped Georgia... he still loses. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 11:40 8
- Zero percent chance this was the only call he made. It’s just the only one we’ve heard. He called everyone. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 3, 12:17
- It's more about having the argument that the count was wrong in at least one state. He could extrapolate that to say they were all wrong. -- nm - David Jan 3, 11:45 2
  - He’s going to say that anyway. He. Still. Loses. -- nm - spamlet Jan 3, 11:58 1
    - In his mind, it has more teeth if he gets one. You have to think like a grifter to understand his strategies. -- nm - David Jan 3, 12:21
- “If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.” -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 11:42 2
  - bingo -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:48
  - Yeah, about that House of Cards. -- nm - Kevin Spacey, probably Jan 3, 11:47
- It would be the first domino, they’d use it as proof of their claims to have the other states thrown out, etc. - znufrii, stimulated Jan 3, 11:41
I would say this is banana republic bullshit, but even in those places they do it better than this. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 3, 11:27 1
- heh -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:30
Here is the audio: -- (link) - Bark Multiverse Jan 3, 10:53 3
- He really believes this shit. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:08 2
  - he sure seems to, but everything he does or says is pretense because he's just a big baby who's acted like this forever. -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:11 1
    - He sees his protection from prosecution going away and he knows he's going down - TWuG Jan 3, 11:15
They included a partial audio clip and it's... I'd say "unbelievable" but I don't think that word means what I think it means. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 3, 10:49 6
- "video taping this crime spree was the best idea we've ever had!" -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 10:53 5
  - We just need to be continually happy that Trump and Co are just so *bad* at this. - ty97 Jan 3, 10:54 4
    - What's terrifying is that in the not too distant future somebody will come along that is not bad at this. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 3, 10:57 2
      - not if there's serious consequences this time around. -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:12 1
        
        In that case I'm sticking with "terrifying." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 3, 11:17
    - They let themselves be recorded!! -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 10:54
Sorry, we could only find 11,778. You lost by 1. - Strongbad Jan 3, 10:32 2
- (this also tells me that we have not reached the full depths of stupidity on this) - Reagen Jan 3, 10:38
- The people inside that are enabling this bullshit need to man up. I mean, it won't happen, but it would stop it. -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 10:34

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