Recording of Trump Phone Call to Georgia Lead Investigator Reveals New Details

[brooklynite]

Source: Wall Street Journal

ATLANTA—Then-President Donald Trump urged the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to look for fraud during an audit of mail-in ballots in a suburban Atlanta county, on a phone call he made to her in late December.

During the six-minute call, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he won Georgia. “Something bad happened,” he said.

“When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised,” Mr. Trump told the chief investigator, Frances Watson.

She responded: “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts.”

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/recording-of-trump-phone-call-to-georgia-lead-investigator-reveals-new-details-11615411561

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nb: this is a month BEFORE the call with SoS Raffensperger.

[Tomconroy]

1. Trump phoning

I don't think we have heard half the story about Trump's phone calls in the months after the election. At one point he tweeted out the cell phone numbers of Mich. Republican officials who wouldn't do his bidding. A lot of calls were made to PA. A lot has yet to come out.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He even mentioned Jan 6th as being an important date

if a few weeks. They just played the tape on CNN. He is such a mobster...100%.It

[Blue Owl]

3. Uh oh, Diarrhea Donny has leakage...

[bucolic_frolic]

4. GA officials get highest marks for standing up to this onslaught

[liberalla]

5. They sure do!

There was no waffling. They stayed strong!

[Cha]

8. & they are repubs standing strong

against the Traitortrump.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. They didn't give him the answer he wanted, but that Georgia Bureau DID do an audit

Separately from any election officials, on their own. I remember reading about it at the time.

I'm quite curious as to whether or not they undertook this audit purely on the basis of being pressured by Trump to conduct one.

[Thunderbeast]

6. This pattern of calls to Georgia officials may be charged as racketeering.

I think that the wheels are soon coming off of the Trump Train.

His civil and criminal exposure should make him VERY AFRAID. Sadly, he has lived a life where he has NEVER been held to account for his deeds.

His idiot followers will, however, not be swayed. He owns them. No evidence will be powerful enough to make them believe that he is not being persecuted.

[Rural_Progressive]

11. Then let the persecutions begin

biggest mistake the Orange Grifter made was holding the office of POTUS. Had he remained a private citizen he could have continued the shell game, money laundering, and crime family operations until he died and handed the mess off to his misbegotten offspring.

But no, the boy had to let his narcissism take control. In addition to the attention you get as president automatically he managed to piss off a lot of people way higher on the food chain. Those people are going to make him an object lesson to discourage others of his ilk from embarrassing them and costing them power and money.

So sad for the orange dumpster fire.

[Cha]

7. Kick

[Skittles]

10. the right answer

you know, the one that favors cheating, lying rightwing assholes

[Martin68]

12. Trump was planning to overturn the election and steal the presidency by hook or by crook.

Maybe after the surprise of actually winning the presidential election he thought he was unstoppable.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Lock him up!!!!!