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| quote: In a December phone call with the chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office, former President Donald Trump insisted he won Georgia's presidential election, telling the investigator "the country is counting on" an audit that was launched to determine whether the signature verification process for mail ballots was done properly in the state's third largest county, according to a newly published audio recording obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
"This country is counting on it because it's very interesting. ... I won everything but Georgia, you know, and I won Georgia -- I know that -- by a lot, and the people know it, and you know, something happened there. I mean, something bad happened," Trump told the chief investigator, Frances Watson, according to the recording of the six-minute call.
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The former president goes on to tell Watson, "When the right answer comes out, you'll be praised. ... People will say, great, because that's -- that's what it's about, that ability to check it, and to make it right because everyone knows it's wrong."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...or/story?id=76376706Audio here: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/loc...2AJG57PFM67YSUWBN3Q/
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| I listened to the phone call. Honestly, not awful. He’s expressing concern that the outcome was wrong and asking her to look into it. He’s crazy, of course, but I think the call itself is defensible. |
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| The content of the phone call isn't awful; the problem is the very fact that the call was made and who made it. There are established ways for candidates to express their concern with the results of an election. Recounts, audits, and lawsuits immediately come to mind. I think it's totally inappropriate for the candidate, who happens to be POTUS, to directly call elected government officials to complain. There's too much of a power differential between the parties involved.
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| quote: Originally posted by QuirtEvans:
I listened to the phone call. Honestly, not awful. He’s expressing concern that the outcome was wrong and asking her to look into it. He’s crazy, of course, but I think the call itself is defensible.
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