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Georgia prosecutors launch criminal probe into Trump's efforts to overturn election results

The investigation will look into the phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump begged him to reverse Joe Biden's victory.

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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."

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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.