'I just want to find 11,780 votes': In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia ...

[DonViejo]

‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

By Amy Gardner
Jan. 3, 2021 at 12:59 p.m. EST

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 12,779-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.”

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[OregonBlue]

1. "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have." I'd say he is telling the SOS to

"find" votes that don't exist. That's illegal.

[tanyev]

2. Does he mean 12,780?

Because 11,780 still doesn’t overcome Biden’s 12,779 victory. Effing mental midget.

[stillcool]

10. oh man. didn't notice that

and now I can't stop

[tanyev]

12. I'm basing that on the Washington Post story that is in another thread.

I see now that the MSN story is saying it’s an 11,779 margin. I don’t know which one is right.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214796869

[Generic Brad]

17. So he could lose by 1,000 votes instead?

He's so incompetent, he can't even cheat effectively. What a loser!

[SharonClark]

3. If Raffensberger were a Democrat, Trump

would have tried to arrest him by now. Glad he’s a trumper.

[catbyte]

4. What's his point? Overturning Georgia wouldn't change a thing even if that was possible.

Unless he's honked off that Biden won as many EC votes as he did in 2016 and he can't have that.

What am I saying? I'm trying to apply logic to an unstable, malignant narcissist dictator wannabe.

Never mind.

[LisaL]

5. Who says that Trump was only calling Georgia SOS?

NT

[catbyte]

9. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have Democratic Secretaries of State.

That's enough to give Biden the presidency right there.

[2naSalit]

18. Don't mean to upset you but...

That's probably it.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. And still, NOTHING is being done with recorded evidence that he is a blatant thug criminal....

simply unfathomable
Just brain exploding and soul shattering.

[Boomerproud]

11. Enough.

[Stuart G]

7. K and R..Thank You for Posting..Proves Trump is a crook as well as totally "nuts"

[underpants]

8. It was a great call. Some people say it was perfect.

[David__77]

14. Haha took me a moment to get that.

Such generalizations. The mythical “they.”

[Midnight Writer]

13. We need public comments from Loeffler and Perdue. How do they feel about this?

Oh, right, Perdue is hiding out again.

[Windy City Charlie]

15. The hyporcrisy

Claims there's all sorts of fraud that hasn't been proven, and then turns around and wants someone to commit fraud like this for him.

[superpatriotman]

16. Amzing how sure he is that he won the state

Almost as if it was promised to him?.......

[2naSalit]

20. Did sound that way.

[2naSalit]

19. I can't wait to hear what Speaker Pelosi has to say...

About this. She'll say exactly the right thing.