Martha MacCallum bags a rat

This afternoon Fox's Martha MacCallum had a chance to interview Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the mild mannered Fox News anchor got Raffensperger (Or Raff the Rat) to reluctantly admit that it was he who leaked the phone call with the President to the Washington Post. It took a while to get the admission if you listen carefully to the tape he tried to sidestep it like we are all children. MacCallum persisted and then he admitted to the truth saying he did it after the President came out with some of the conversation on Twitter.
Here is that interview:
We also learned that he had an axe to grind with Senator David Purdue who had called for Raffensperger's resignation. It was Raffensperger who signed the secret consent decree with progressive activist Stacey Abrams, which made a check of mail-in-ballot signatures tied to the signature of those requesting the ballot, as opposed to a voter's on-record signature. The past election in Georgia saw an unprecedented use of mail-in-voting, while at the same time experiencing a very low rejection rate for ballots via signatures. On the tape you will hear Raffensperger claim there were only 2! (People who had signed for their spouses). He also promised Purdue that if he would call him man-to-man he would keep the conversation "off-the-record. " (scouts honor!)
It seems that Raffensperger is willing to take down Purdue as an act of revenge, which is part of the theme here.
We also learned that Raffensperger had been ignoring the President's calls (18 of them). He may cave in to democrats but Georgia's Secretary of State had no problem putting a knife in the President's back.
The phone call with the President was related to a lawsuit and the settlement of some of those issues. Oddly enough, none of the suits the President has brought before the Courts have claimed fraud. The media has trouble explaining such things.

Raffensperber investigated the election results but he won't release it to the public.
The recording is released to the Washington Post about 24 hours before the election. Another Post special!
gee, republican inter-party politics sure are cut throat.
It's really simple: Don't do dirty deals with dirty democrats and you avoid being asked to resign.
gosh, the losers headed to the dumpster in 15 days all seem to have R's by their names.
It really is kind of amusing all this infighting and backbiting. Usually, it is the Democratic party who squabbles while the Republican party closes ranks.
Vic, you far separated from reality with that statement. You say that the results of the election should stand at the same time stating that "dirty deals" were done, in-essence agreeing with the president. So which is it? Do you agree with the president? Do you agree that the election was stolen? That is what it sounds like.
What 'dirty deals' are you talking about Vic? Since your unfounded bullshit about the Compromise Agreement has already been refuted, I would think that you'd refrain from making the same mistake.
Oh and it may behoove you to note that the Compromise Agreement was entered into in MARCH. Where the fuck was Trump and his sycophants THEN? Why wait until AFTER the elections to whine and misrepresent it?
Really?
You say that the results of the election should stand at the same time stating that "dirty deals" were done
There is no contradiction there. If signatures were wrongly validated via the agreement they in essence transformed what could be a fraudulent ballot into a legal one. You couldn't do anything about that now.
Making legal what could be fraudulent.
Oh and it may behoove you to note that the Compromise Agreement was entered into in MARCH.
Did you know about it in March? Who did?
Somebody here said this:
Oh ya, that was YOU.
Every fucking REPUBLICAN election official in Georgia Vic. They are listed on the Compromise Agreement.
Is it your posit that they didn't share that shit with the Governor or the RNC?
Come on man.
Bout time.
Trump never should have attempted to bully the state of Georgia. That phone call never should have happened. Trump created the knife and then asked that it be inserted into his back.
Did you listen to that call? Forget the media, you can listen to Trump himself for about an hour. Do so and get your facts straight on what actually happened. If you were to do that (which I truly doubt) you would see that Trump tried to bully the state of Georgia to take actions that would cause him to be the certified winner of GA.
How specifically? I’m not going to listen to the whole thing and even if I did, I can’t guarantee we’d hear the same words and both consider them to be threats. I’m curious what threats you perceived.
Really?
You can read the full transcript here:
Read the full transcript and listen to Trump's audio call with Georgia secretary of state
Read the transcript of President Trump’s call with Georgia secretary of state
You should listen to the audio Tacos! This is definitely a situation where there is no substitute for hearing Trump directly. No spin, no editorial, just the raw words from his mouth.
It was innuendo with comments along the lines of: 'the people know I won so this makes you look bad'. No point in me getting specific since that would be my interpretation when you can hear Trump for yourself.
What part of “and” was unclear to you?
No thanks. For the reasons stated.
The argument can either be made with clarity or it can’t. If we can’t even start from something specific, then we need to get off of this notion that something criminal happened.
I hope you see how vague that is and subject to the ear of the beholder’s interpretation.
That doesn’t sound very ominous. Politicians tell each other every day that something they do or say (or fail to do or say) will make them look bad. The man’s opinion can’t be a crime.
Your loss. Then you don't have a leg to stand on defending orange conman regarding this phone call.
Then don't make assertions about it. If I could listen to the whole thing you surely can. He came off like low level mob boss. Telling the SoS that he could be in legal jeopardy if he doesn't do as trump says.
Raffensperger was wise to record that call with trump given trump's propensity to lie, and the 18 calls trump made to Raffensperger where Raffensperger wouldn't pick up, who could blame him for that. That manic behavior by trump was what you might expect from a panicky, jilted teenager.
Oh and the "Raff the Rat", who came up with that, a 10 year old ?
Okay Tacos! clearly you are here to pick a fight. I told you that I was not going to give you a specific summary (to avoid a vague opinion oriented debate) given we have Trump's own words to go with. Even then you translate that into an inability on my part and try to offer excuses for Trump on the one characterization I offered (so as to not be entirely rude).
Listen to the audio. Come back informed. Let's see what you write.
I haven’t seen anything that needs defending yet. Typical of politics - and especially so with Trump - is this tendency to take perfectly legal behavior and pretend it’s criminal. Just declaring it doesn’t make it so. You have to connect facts to the elements of the law and do so in a way that doesn’t offend notions of common sense and fair play, nor ignore his rights under the Constitution.
You have no facts to connect since you didn't listen to nor read the transcripts. So all your posts are moot.
The only person who even mentioned the word criminal (other than you) was DP @3.2 Even then, he said 'arguably criminal'. Where is this 'criminal' notion to which you keep objecting?
I didn’t make an assertion. I asked someone else to support their assertion.
See, this is what’s wrong with this business. People see and hear the things that their bias directs them to see and hear.
I’d sooner peel off my own fingernails. I honestly can’t stand to listen to him for more than a few minutes.
Trump isn’t the Attorney General of either this country or the State of Georgia, so he’s not in a position to threaten prosecution. Are you alleging that he threatened prosecution? Or was Trump just expressing his own wacky opinion?
I wouldn’t argue with that. However, being a giant baby isn’t a crime.
Exactly. The facts are easily had yet we see an argument from ignorance. What value is that?
Another personal assessment from you. How delightful. Would you like to get back to the topic or can we expect more personal attacks?
I clearly asked you to specifically explain your assertion that Trump was bullying the state of Georgia. You can either explain that with specificity or you can’t.
Is it too much to ask people to cite specific facts that lead them to their conclusions? If so, it doesn’t say much for the conclusion, does it?
And now we have the predictable victim tactic.
And I suggested that you listen to the audio and get educated. I am not here to formulate a summary for you. Get educated and then engage me in debate.
Ultimately the bullying notion is going to be opinion: there is no strict standard for 'bullying' so it is judgment. You can easily just say 'it does not seem like bullying to me'. So where does that lead us? Pee Wee Herman: 'yes it is' 'no it is not' 'yes it is'?
I am not going to debate opinion. Listen to the audio. If you have something to discuss or debate then come back.
And TiG goes personal again. I haven’t made an argument from ignorance or otherwise.
An argument from ignorance is not personal. I am referring to you engaging on this topic while being ignorant of the content. You told us that you did not listen to the audio. You established your ignorance of the content.
More evidence that you are here to simply pick a fight.
And now we have the disingenuous objection that you did nothing out of line. Simple question and be fair-minded: Is why I came here a fit topic for discussion? I don’t think so. I now repeat my challenge that you stick to the topic.
That’s impossible. There is nothing to debate. I haven’t offered a counter opinion. All I have asked you to do is to justify yours. I have asked multiple times now and you refuse. All you want to do instead is attack me for asking.
I’m not going to listen to however many minutes of phone call there might be and then play 20 questions about which part of it led you to believe that Trump was “bullying the state of Georgia.”
So simple question: Are there articulable facts you can present to support your claim or did you just make that shit up?
That would require a personal investment in becoming informed. That's too much to ask of many here. It's unfortunate that so many would rather read 'crib note' interpretations rather than reading/listening to the evidence for themselves.
Yes it is. You are saying two things about me that aren’t true. First, that I have made an argument. I haven’t. I asked you to support your position. I never said you were right or wrong. Second you said I was arguing from ignorance, which is an attack on my character and false.
And you go personal AGAIN! Third time. Wow.
More evidence that you are here to pick a fight.
No, Tacos!, I am not making up the fact that after listening to Trump speak that he was trying to bully the state of Georgia. That is indeed my summary opinion.
And I came to that opinion after listening to the audio.
You, on the other hand, have no idea what is in the audio. Instead you want me to give you a summary detailing how I formed my opinion. Well I do not do summaries on command. Especially when, as I explained in my first post, this is a situation where you should listen to what Trump actually said. It is pointless to go on editorials. Just listen to the audio.
Every comment from you proves you are simply here to pick a fight. I suggest you talk about the content or leave.
Oh I have tried. Over and over. I keep asking for information, but some people don’t want to give it. Perhaps they simply don’t have it to begin with.
And thanks for stopping by to talk about me as if I’m not here.
You make sedition sound cute, that's appalling to me.
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I will ask again. What specifically in the phone conversation leads you to say that Trump was bullying the state of Georgia? It is a simple question. It is on the topic. I have asked it several times. You can refuse to answer and that’s fine, but accusing me of not wanting to talk about the content is an obvious and provable lie.
[If you cannot stomach listening to the tape, I understand.]
[If you refuse to read the transcript, then you don't need other members to spoon feed you bits and pieces,]
[you're just being willfully disruptive and looking for a fight.]
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You have insisted more than once that you have no intention of becoming informed. It's been pointed out to you more than once that the audio and the transcript are available but you just can't be bothered to review either. Instead of adulting, you petulantly insist that others hold your hand and GIVE you the crib notes so you can be spared the painful experience of listening to Trump.
Suck it up buttercup, listen to the audio or read the transcript.
I learned the practice from you and yours.
Tacos! you are asking me to lay out all the specific quotes, capture the innuendo, etc. in that audio that caused me to form my opinion that Trump was bullying the state of Georgia. It is not as if I can go to a single quote and deliver it.
I am not going to spend my time trying produce a book report for you that clearly captures why I formed my opinion.
Listen to the audio. We have a rare situation where we have Trump speaking for himself so it is first hand. Form your own opinion. If you come away armed with a clear argument that Trump was not bullying the SoS of GA then you are certainly free to make it.
There is no point in anyone citing anything to you because you can't post a rebuttal using facts since you haven't read the transcript or listened to the recording.
No one is going to do the research for you, that's not how this forum works.
Is this what they call "sealioning" ? I think it is.
BINGO!
here is the press conference today by the Georgia Sec. of States office. He goes point by point in rebuttal of what Trump alleged in the phone call.
Here is the transcript of the phone call.
www.msn.com /en-us/news/politics/read-transcript-of-trump-phone-call-with-georgia-secretary-of-state/ar-BB1ct8eU
Transcript of Trump phone call with Georgia secretary of state
Meadows: OK. Alright. Mr. President, everybody is on the line. This is Mark Meadows, the chief of staff. Just so we all are aware. On the line is secretary of state and two other individuals. Jordan and Mr. Germany with him. You also have the attorneys that represent the president, Kurt and Alex and Cleta Mitchell - who is not the attorney of record but has been involved - myself and then the president. So Mr. President, I'll turn it over to you.
Trump: Okay, thank you very much. Hello Brad and Ryan and everybody. We appreciate the time and the call. So we've spent a lot of time on this, and if we could just go over some of the numbers, I think it's pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We'd be getting 25-30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.
But we have a number of things. We have at least 2 or 3 - anywhere from 250 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls. Much of that had to do with Fulton County, which hasn't been checked. We think that if you check the signatures - a real check of the signatures going back in Fulton County - you'll find at least a couple of hundred thousand of forged signatures of people who have been forged. And we are quite sure that's going to happen.
Another tremendous number. We're going to have an accurate number over the next two days with certified accountants. But an accurate number will be given, but it's in the 50s of thousands - and that's people that went to vote and they were told they can't vote because they've already been voted for. And it's a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the number's large. We'll have it for you. But it's much more than the number of 11,779 that's - the current margin is only 11,779. Brad, I think you agree with that, right? That's something I think everyone - at least that's a number that everyone agrees on.
But that's the difference in the votes. But we've had hundreds of thousands of ballots that we're able to actually - we'll get you a pretty accurate number. You don't need much of a number because the number that in theory, I lost by, the margin would be 11,779. But you also have substantial numbers of people, thousands and thousands, who went to the voting place on November 3, were told they couldn't vote, were told they couldn't vote because a ballot had been put in on their name. And you know that's very, very, very, very sad.
We had, I believe it's about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren't on the voter registration list, so it's 4,502 who voted, but they weren't on the voter registration roll, which they had to be. You had 18,325 vacant address voters. The address was vacant, and they're not allowed to be counted. That's 18,325.
Smaller number - you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O. - a post office box number - and they had a post office box number, and that's not allowed. We had at least 18,000 - that's on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly - 18,000 voters having to do with [name]. She's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler [name]. That was the tape that's been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad, you, me and everybody else.
Where they got - number one they said very clearly and it's been reported that they said there was a major water main break. Everybody fled the area. And then they came back, [name] and her daughter and a few people. There were no Republican poll watchers. Actually, there were no Democrat poll watchers, I guess they were them. But there were no Democrats, either, and there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, early in the morning, they went to the table with the black robe and the black shield, and they pulled out the votes. Those votes were put there a number of hours before - the table was put there - I think it was, Brad, you would know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and then it was stuffed with votes.
They weren't in an official voter box; they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks, suitcases, but they weren't in voter boxes. The minimum number it could be because we watched it, and they watched it certified in slow-motion instant replay if you can believe it, but slow motion, and it was magnified many times over, and the minimum it was 18,000 ballots, all for Biden.
You had out-of-state voters. They voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state, of 4,925. You had absentee ballots sent to vacant, they were absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses. They had nothing on them about addresses, that's 2,326.
And you had drop boxes, which is very bad. You had drop boxes that were picked up. We have photographs, and we have affidavits from many people.
I don't know if you saw the hearings, but you have dropboxes where the box was picked up and not delivered for three days. So all sorts of things could have happened to that box, including, you know, putting in the votes that you wanted. So there were many infractions, and the bottom line is, many, many times the 11,779 margin that they said we lost by - we had vast, I mean the state is in turmoil over this.
And I know you would like to get to the bottom of it, although I saw you on television today, and you said that you found nothing wrong. I mean, you know, and I didn't lose the state, Brad. People have been saying that it was the highest vote ever. There was no way. A lot of the political people said that there's no way they beat me. And they beat me. They beat me in the ... As you know, every single state, we won every state. We won every statehouse in the country. We held the Senate, which is shocking to people, although we'll see what happens tomorrow or in a few days.
And we won the House, but we won every single statehouse, and we won Congress, which was supposed to lose 15 seats, and they gained, I think 16 or 17 or something. I think there's a now difference of five. There was supposed to be a difference substantially more. But politicians in every state, but politicians in Georgia have given affidavits and are going to that, that there was no way that they beat me in the election, that the people came out, in fact, they were expecting to lose, and then they ended up winning by a lot because of the coattails. And they said there's no way, that they've done many polls prior to the election, that there was no way that they won.
Ballots were dropped in massive numbers. And we're trying to get to those numbers and we will have them.
They'll take a period of time. Certified. But but they're massive numbers. And far greater than the 11,779.
The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.
The bottom line is, when you add it all up and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake ballots. Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas. And this may or may not be true ... this just came up this morning, that they are burning their ballots, that they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment. They're changing the equipment on the Dominion machines and, you know, that's not legal.
And they supposedly shredded I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots. And that just came to us as a report today. And it is a very sad situation.
But Brad, if you took the minimum numbers where many, many times above the 11,779, and many of those numbers are certified, or they will be certified, but they are certified. And those are numbers that are there, that exist. And that beat the margin of loss, they beat it, I mean, by a lot, and people should be happy to have an accurate count instead of an election where there's turmoil.
I mean there's turmoil in Georgia and other places. You're not the only one, I mean, we have other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly. And this is something that - you know, as an example, I think it in Detroit, I think there's a section, a good section of your state actually, which we're not sure so we're not going to report it yet. But in Detroit, we had, I think it was, 139 percent of the people voted. That's not too good.
In Pennsylvania, they had well over 200,000 more votes than they had people voting. And that doesn't play too well, and the legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely activist and angry. I mean, there were other things also that were almost as bad as that. But they had as an example, in Michigan, a tremendous number of dead people that voted. I think it was, I think, Mark, it was 18,000. Some unbelievably high number, much higher than yours, you were in the 4-5,000 category.
And that was checked out laboriously by going through, by going through the obituary columns in the newspapers.
So I guess with all of it being said, Brad, the bottom line, and provisional ballots, again, you know, you'll have to tell me about the provisional ballots, but we have a lot of people that were complaining that they weren't able to vote because they were already voted for. These are great people.
And, you know, they were shellshocked. I don't know if you call that provisional ballots. In some states, we had a lot of provisional ballot situations where people were given a provisional ballot because when they walked in on November 3 and they were already voted for.
So that's it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win the state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily, and we're getting, we have, much of this is a very certified, far more certified than we need. But we're getting additional numbers certified, too. And we're getting pictures of dropboxes being delivered and delivered late. Delivered three days later, in some cases, plus we have many affidavits to that effect.
Meadows: So, Mr. President, if I might be able to jump in, and I'll give Brad a chance. Mr. Secretary, obviously there is, there are allegations where we believe that not every vote or fair vote and legal vote was counted, and that's at odds with the representation from the secretary of state's office.
What I'm hopeful for is there some way that we can, we can find some kind of agreement to look at this a little bit more fully? You know the president mentioned Fulton County.
But in some of these areas where there seems to be a difference of where the facts seem to lead, and so Mr. Secretary, I was hopeful that, you know, in the spirit of cooperation and compromise, is there something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of these allegations to find a path forward that's less litigious?
Raffensperger: Well, I listened to what the president has just said. President Trump, we've had several lawsuits, and we've had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions. We don't agree that you have won. And we don't - I didn't agree about the 200,000 number that you'd mentioned. I'll go through that point by point.
What we have done is we gave our state Senate about one and a half hours of our time going through the election issue by issue and then on the state House, the government affairs committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point on all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S. congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time talking about this past election.
Going back, primarily what you've talked about here focused in on primarily, I believe, is the absentee ballot process. I don't believe that you're really questioning the Dominion machines. Because we did a hand re-tally, a 100 percent re-tally of all the ballots, and compared them to what the machines said and came up with virtually the same result. Then we did the recount, and we got virtually the same result. So I guess we can probably take that off the table.
I don't think there's an issue about that.
Trump: Well, Brad. Not that there's not an issue, because we have a big issue with Dominion in other states and perhaps in yours. But we haven't felt we needed to go there. And just to, you know, maybe put a little different spin on what Mark is saying, Mark Meadows, yeah we'd like to go further, but we don't really need to. We have all the votes we need.
You know, we won the state. If you took, these are the most minimal numbers, the numbers that I gave you, those are numbers that are certified, your absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses, your out-of-state voters, 4,925. You know when you add them up, it's many more times, it's many times the 11,779 number. So we could go through, we have not gone through your Dominion. So we can't give them blessing. I mean, in other states, we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we'll have to see.
But we only lost the state by that number, 11,000 votes, and 779. So with that being said, with just what we have, with just what we have, we're giving you minimal, minimal numbers. We're doing the most conservative numbers possible; we're many times, many, many times above the margin. And so we don't really have to, Mark, I don't think we have to go through ...
Meadows: Right.
Trump: Because what's the difference between winning the election by two votes and winning it by half a million votes. I think I probably did win it by half a million. You know, one of the things that happened, Brad, is we have other people coming in now from Alabama and from South Carolina and from other states, and they're saying it's impossible for you to have lost Georgia. We won. You know in Alabama, we set a record, got the highest vote ever. In Georgia, we set a record with a massive amount of votes. And they say it's not possible to have lost Georgia.
And I could tell you by our rallies. I could tell you by the rally I'm having on Monday night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It's just not possible to have lost Georgia. It's not possible. When I heard it was close, I said there's no way. But they dropped a lot of votes in there late at night. You know that, Brad. And that's what we are working on very, very stringently. But regardless of those votes, with all of it being said, we lost by essentially 11,000 votes, and we have many more votes already calculated and certified, too.
And so I just don't know, you know, Mark, I don't know what's the purpose. I won't give Dominion a pass because we found too many bad things. But we don't need Dominion or anything else. We have won this election in Georgia based on all of this. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, Brad. You know, I mean, having the correct - the people of Georgia are angry. And these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night. Along with others that we're going to have by that time, which are much more substantial even. And the people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. Because the 2,236 in absentee ballots. I mean, they're all exact numbers that were done by accounting firms, law firms, etc. And even if you cut 'em in half, cut 'em in half and cut 'em in half again, it's more votes than we need.
Raffensperger: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. We talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised.
But they - I guess there was a person named Mr. Braynard that came to these meetings and presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so that's wrong. That was two.
Trump: Well, Cleta, how do you respond to that? Maybe you tell me?
Mitchell: Well, I would say, Mr. Secretary, one of the things that we have requested and what we said was, if you look, if you read our petition, it said that we took the names and birth years, and we had certain information available to us. We have asked from your office for records that only you have, and so we said there is a universe of people who have the same name and same birth year and died.
But we don't have the records that you have. And one of the things that we have been suggesting formally and informally for weeks now is for you to make available to us the records that would be necessary -
Trump: But, Cleta, even before you do that, and not even including that, that's why I hardly even included that number, although in one state, we have a tremendous amount of dead people. So I don't know - I'm sure we do in Georgia, too. I'm sure we do in Georgia, too.
But we're so far ahead. We're so far ahead of these numbers, even the phony ballots of [name], known scammer. You know the Internet? You know what was trending on the Internet? "Where's [name]?" Because they thought she'd be in jail. "Where's [name]?" It's crazy, it's crazy. That was. The minimum number is 18,000 for [name] , but they think it's probably about 56,000, but the minimum number is 18,000 on the [name] night where she ran back in there when everybody was gone and stuffed, she stuffed the ballot boxes. Let's face it, Brad, I mean. They did it in slow motion replay magnified, right? She stuffed the ballot boxes. They were stuffed like nobody has ever seen them stuffed before.
So there's a term for it when it's a machine instead of a ballot box, but she stuffed the machine. She stuffed the ballot. Each ballot went three times, they were showing: Here's ballot No 1. Here it is a second time, third time, next ballot.
I mean, look. Brad. We have a new tape that we're going to release. It's devastating. And by the way, that one event, that one event is much more than the 11,000 votes that we're talking about. It's, you know, that one event was a disaster. And it's just, you know, but it was, it was something, it can't be disputed. And again, we have a version that you haven't seen, but it's magnified. It's magnified, and you can see everything. For some reason, they put it in three times, each ballot, and I don't know why. I don't know why three times. Why not five times, right? Go ahead.
Raffensperger: You're talking about the State Farm video. And I think it's extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context. The next day, we brought in WSB-TV, and we let them show, see the full run of tape, and what you'll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was projected by, you know -
Trump: But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there. There were no Democrats or Republicans. There was no security there.
It was late in the evening, late in the, early in the morning, and there was nobody else in the room. Where were the poll watchers, and why did they say a water main broke, which they did and which was reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a water main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break. There was no water main break. But we're, if you take out everything, where were the Republican poll watchers, even where were the Democrat pollwatchers, because there were none.
And then you say, well, they left their station, you know, if you look at the tape, and this was, this was reviewed by professional police and detectives and other people, when they left in a rush, everybody left in a rush because of the water main, but everybody left in a rush. These people left their station.
When they came back, they didn't go to their station. They went to the apron, wrapped around the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an official or a sealed box. And then they took those. They went back to a different station. So if they would have come back, they would have walked to their station, and they would have continued to work. But they couldn't do even that because that's illegal, because they had no Republican pollwatchers. And remember, her reputation is - she's known all over the Internet, Brad. She's known all over.
I'm telling you, "Where's [name] " was one of the hot items ... [name] They knew her. "Where's [name]?" So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was - and Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put 'em in three times.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
Trump: Where was everybody else at that late time in the morning? Where was everybody? Where were the Republicans? Where were the security guards? Were the people that were there just a little while before when everyone ran out of the room. How come we had no security in the room? Why did they run to the bottom of the table? Why do they run there and just open the skirt and rip out the votes? I mean, Brad. And they were sitting there, I think for five hours or something like that, the votes. But they just all happened to run back and go...Brad.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, we'll send you the link from WSB.
Trump: I don't care about the link. I don't need it. Brad, I have a much better link -
Mitchell: I will tell you. I've seen the tape. The full tape. So has Alex. We've watched it. And what we saw and what we've confirmed in the timing is that they made everybody leave - we have sworn affidavits saying that. And then they began to process ballots. And our estimate is that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don't know that. If you know that ...
Trump: It was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.
Mitchell: Well, I don't know about that.
Trump: I do think we had ours magnified out.
Mitchell: I've watched the entire tape.
Trump: Nobody can make a case for that, Brad. Nobody. I mean, look, you'd have to be a child to think anything other than that. Just a child.
Mitchell: How many ballots, Mr. Secretary, are you saying were processed then?
Raffensperger: We had GBI thoroughly investigate that.
Germany: We had our - this is Ryan Germany. We had our law enforcement officers talk to everyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. GBI was with them as well as FBI agents.
Trump: Well, there's no way they could - then they're incompetent. They're either dishonest or incompetent, okay?
Mitchell: Well, what did they find?
Trump: There's only two answers, dishonesty or incompetence. There's just no way. Look. There's no way. And on the other thing, I said too, there is no way. I mean, there's no way that these things could have been, you know, you have all these different people that voted, but they don't live in Georgia anymore. What was that number, Cleta? That was a pretty good number, too.
Mitchell: The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And so they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state, and then it's like 4,500, I don't have that right in front of me.
Trump: And then they came back in, and they voted.
Mitchell: And voted. Yeah.
Trump: I thought that was a large number, though. It was in the 20s.
Germany: We've been going through each of those as well, and those numbers that we got, that Ms. Mitchell was just saying, they're not accurate. Every one we've been through are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately. And in many cases -
Trump: How many people do that? They moved out, and then they said, "Ah, to hell with it, I'll move back." You know, it doesn't sound like a very normal ... you mean, they moved out, and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It's crazy.
Germany: They moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election. So there's something about that data that, it's just not accurate.
Trump: Well, I don't know, all I know is that it is certified. And they moved out of Georgia, and they voted. It didn't say they moved back in, Cleta, did it?
Mitchell: No, but I mean, we're looking at the voter registration. Again, if you have additional records, we've been asking for that, but you haven't shared any of that with us. You just keep saying you investigated the allegations.
Trump: Cleta, a lot of it you don't need to be shared. I mean, to be honest, they should share it. They should share it because you want to get to an honest election.
I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There's no way I lost Georgia. There's no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. I'm just going by small numbers, when you add them up, they're many times the 11,000. But I won that state by hundreds of thousands of votes.
Do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that's what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery.
Do you know anything about that? Because that's illegal.
Germany: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.
Trump: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?
Germany: No.
Trump: Are you sure, Ryan?
Germany: I'm sure. I'm sure, Mr. President.
Trump: What about, what about the ballots. The shredding of the ballots. Have they been shredding ballots?
Germany: The only investigation that we have into that - they have not been shredding any ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that. But this is stuff from, you know, from you know past elections.
Trump: It doesn't pass the smell test because we hear they're shredding thousands and thousands of ballots, and now what they're saying, "Oh, we're just cleaning up the office." You know.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they - people can say anything.
Trump: Oh this isn't social media. This is Trump media. It's not social media. It's really not; it's not social media. I don't care about social media. I couldn't care less. Social media is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don't even know why you have a side because you should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican.
Raffensperger: We believe that we do have an accurate election.
Trump: No, no you don't. No, no you don't. You don't have. Not even close. You're off by hundreds of thousands of votes. And just on the small numbers, you're off on these numbers, and these numbers can't be just - well, why wont? - Okay. So you sent us into Cobb County for signature verification, right? You sent us into Cobb County, which we didn't want to go into. And you said it would be open to the public. So we had our experts there, they weren't allowed into the room. But we didn't want Cobb County. We wanted Fulton County. And you wouldn't give it to us. Now, why aren't we doing signature - and why can't it be open to the public?
And why can't we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find anything and don't want to find anything? They don't want to find, you know they don't want to find anything. Someday you'll tell me the reason why, because I don't understand your reasoning, but someday you'll tell me the reason why. But why don't you want to find?
Germany: Mr. President, we chose Cobb County -
Trump: Why don't you want to find ... What?
Germany: Sorry, go ahead.
Trump: So why did you do Cobb County? We didn't even request - we requested Fulton County, not Cobb County. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.
Germany: We chose Cobb County because that was the only county where there's been any evidence submitted that the signature verification was not properly done.
Trump: No, but I told you. We're not, we're not saying that. We're the aggrieved party.
Mitchell: We did say that.
Trump: Fulton County. Look. Stacey, in my opinion, Stacey is as dishonest as they come. She has outplayed you at every part, at everything. She got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. You can't check signatures. I can't imagine you're allowed to do harvesting, I guess, in that agreement. That agreement is a disaster for this country. But she got you somehow to sign that thing, and she has outsmarted you at every step.
And I hate to imagine what's going to happen on Monday or Tuesday, but it's very scary to people. You know, when the ballots flow in out of nowhere. It's very scary to people. That consent decree is a disaster. It's a disaster. A very good lawyer who examined it said they've never seen anything like it.
Raffensperger: Harvesting is still illegal in the state of Georgia. And that settlement agreement did not change that one iota.
Trump: It's not a settlement agreement, it's a consent decree. It even says consent decree on it, doesn't it? It uses the term consent decree. It doesn't say settlement agreement. It's a consent decree. It's a disaster.
Raffensperger: It's a settlement agreement.
Trump: What's written on top of it?
Raffensperger: Ryan?
Germany: I don't have it in front of me, but it was not entered by the court, it's not a court order.
Trump: But Ryan, it's called a consent decree, is that right? On the paper. Is that right?
Germany: I don't. I don't. I don't believe so, but I don't have it in front of me.
Trump: Okay, whatever, it's a disaster. It's a disaster. Look. Here's the problem. We can go through signature verification, and we'll find hundreds of thousands of signatures, if you let us do it. And the only way you can do it, as you know, is to go to the past. But you didn't do that in Cobb County. You just looked at one page compared to another. The only way you can do a signature verification is go from the one that signed it on November whatever. Recently. And compare it to two years ago, four years ago, six years ago, you know, or even one. And you'll find that you have many different signatures. But in Fulton, where they dumped ballots, you will find that you have many that aren't even signed and you have many that are forgeries.
Okay, you know that. You know that. You have no doubt about that. And you will find you will be at 11,779 within minutes because Fulton County is totally corrupt, and so is she totally corrupt.
And they're going around playing you and laughing at you behind your back, Brad, whether you know it or not, they're laughing at you. And you've taken a state that's a Republican state, and you've made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating, because they cheated like nobody's ever cheated before. And I don't care how long it takes me, you know, we're going to have other states coming forward - pretty good.
But I won't ... this is never ... this is ... We have some incredible talent said they've never seen anything ... Now the problem is they need more time for the big numbers. But they're very substantial numbers. But I think you're going to find that they - by the way, a little information - I think you're going to find that they are shredding ballots because they have to get rid of the ballots because the ballots are unsigned. The ballots are corrupt, and they're brand new, and they don't have seals, and there's a whole thing with the ballots. But the ballots are corrupt.
And you are going to find that they are - which is totally illegal - it is more illegal for you than it is for them because you know what they did and you're not reporting it. That's a criminal, that's a criminal offense. And you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. And that's a big risk. But they are shredding ballots, in my opinion, based on what I've heard. And they are removing machinery, and they're moving it as fast as they can, both of which are criminal finds. And you can't let it happen, and you are letting it happen. You know, I mean, I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen. 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.
And flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, this is - it's a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it. If it was a mistake, I don't know. A lot of people think it wasn't a mistake. It was much more criminal than that. But it's a big problem in Georgia, and it's not a problem that's going away. I mean, you know, it's not a problem that's going away.
Germany: This is Ryan. We're looking into every one of those things that you mentioned.
Trump: Good. But if you find it, you've got to say it, Ryan.
Germany: ... Let me tell you what we are seeing. What we're seeing is not at all what you're describing. These are investigators from our office, these are investigators from GBI, and they're looking, and they're good. And that's not what they're seeing. And we'll keep looking, at all these things.
Trump: Well, you better check on the ballots because they are shredding ballots, Ryan. I'm just telling you, Ryan. They're shredding ballots. And you should look at that very carefully. Because that's so illegal. You know, you may not even believe it because it's so bad. But they're shredding ballots because they think we're going to eventually get there ... because we'll eventually get into Fulton. In my opinion, it's never too late. ... So, that's the story. Look, we need only 11,000 votes. We have are far more than that as it stands now. We'll have more and more. And ... do you have provisional ballots at all, Brad? Provisional ballots?
Raffensperger: Provisional ballots are allowed by state law.
Trump: Sure, but I mean, do you have them, are they counted, or did you just hold them back because they, you know, in other words, how many provisional ballots do you have in the state?
Raffensperger: We'll get you that number.
Trump: Because most of them are made out to the name Trump. Because these are people that were scammed when they came in. And we have thousands of people that have testified or that want to testify. When they came in, they were proudly going to vote on November 3. And they were told, "I'm sorry, you've already been voted for, you've already voted." The women, men started screaming, "No. I proudly voted till November 3." They said, "I'm sorry, but you've already been voted for, and you have a ballot." And these people are beside themselves. So they went out, and they filled in a provisional ballot, putting the name Trump on it.
And what about that batch of military ballots that came in. And even though I won the military by a lot, it was 100 percent Trump. I mean 100 percent Biden. Do you know about that? A large group of ballots came in, I think it was to Fulton County, and they just happened to be 100 percent for Trump - for Biden - even though Trump won the military by a lot, you know, a tremendous amount. But these ballots were 100 percent for Biden. And do you know about that? A very substantial number came in, all for Biden. Does anybody know about it?
Mitchell: I know about it, but -
Trump: Okay, Cleta, I'm not asking you, Cleta, honestly. I'm asking Brad. Do you know about the military ballots that we have confirmed now? Do you know about the military ballots that came in that were 100 percent, I mean 100 percent, for Biden? Do you know about that?
Germany: I don't know about that. I do know that we have, when military ballots come in, it's not just military, it's also military and overseas citizens. The military part of that does generally go Republican. The overseas citizen part of it generally goes very Democrat. This was a mix of 'em.
Trump: No, but this was. That's okay. But I got like 78 percent of the military. These ballots were all for ... They didn't tell me overseas. Could be overseas, too, but I get votes overseas, too, Ryan, in all fairness. No they came in, a large batch came in, and it was, quote, 100 percent for Biden. And that is criminal. You know, that's criminal. Okay. That's another criminal, that's another of the many criminal events, many criminal events here.
I don't know, look, Brad. I got to get ... I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them times a lot. And therefore, I won the state. That's before we go to the next step, which is in the process of right now. You know, and I watched you this morning, and you said, well, there was no criminality.
But I mean all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff. When you talk about no criminality, I think it's very dangerous for you to say that.
I just, I just don't know why you don't want to have the votes counted as they are. Like even you when you went and did that check. And I was surprised because, you know ... And we found a few thousand votes that were against me. I was actually surprised because the way that check was done, all you're doing, you know, recertifying existing votes and, you know, and you were given votes and you just counted them up, and you still found 3,000 that were bad. So that was sort of surprising that it came down to three or five, I don't know. Still a lot of votes. But you have to go back to check from past years with respect to signatures. And if you check with Fulton County, you'll have hundreds of thousands because they dumped ballots into Fulton County and the other county next to it.
So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break. You know, we have that in spades already. Or we can keep it going, but that's not fair to the voters of Georgia because they're going to see what happened, and they're going to see what happened. I mean, I'll, I'll take on anybody you want with regard to [name] and her lovely daughter, a very lovely young lady, I'm sure. But, but [name] ... I will take on anybody you want. And the minimum, there were 18,000 ballots, but they used them three times. So that's, you know, a lot of votes. And they were all to Biden, by the way, that's the other thing we didn't say. You know, [name] , the one thing I forgot to say, which was the most important. You know that every single ballot she did went to Biden. You know that, right? Do you know that, by the way, Brad?
Every single ballot that she did through the machines at early, early in the morning went to Biden. Did you know that, Ryan?
Germany: That's not accurate, Mr. President.
Trump: Huh. What is accurate?
Germany: The numbers that we are showing are accurate.
Trump: No, about [name] . About early in the morning, Ryan. When the woman took, you know, when the whole gang took the stuff from under the table, right? Do you know, do you know who those ballots, do you know who they were made out to, do you know who they were voting for?
Germany: No, not specifically.
Trump: Did you ever check?
Germany: We did what I described to you earlier -
Trump: No no no - did you ever check the ballots that were scanned by [name] , a known political operative, balloteer? Did you ever check who those votes were for?
Germany: We looked into that situation that you described.
Trump: No, they were 100 percent for Biden. 100 percent. There wasn't a Trump vote in the whole group. Why don't you want to find this, Ryan? What's wrong with you? I heard your lawyer is very difficult, actually, but I'm sure you're a good lawyer. You have a nice last name.
But, but I'm just curious, why wouldn't, why do you keep fighting this thing? It just doesn't make sense. We're way over the 17,779, right? We're way over that number, and just if you took just [name] , we're over that number by five, five or six times when you multiply that times three.
And every single ballot went to Biden, and you didn't know that, but now you know it. So tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. And it's going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say that you're going to reexamine it, and you can reexamine it, but reexamine it with people that want to find answers, not people that don't want to find answers. For instance, I'm hearing Ryan that he's probably, I'm sure a great lawyer and everything, but he's making statements about those ballots that he doesn't know. But he's making them with such - he did make them with surety. But now I think he's less sure because the answer is, they all went to Biden, and that alone wins us the election by a lot. You know, so.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, you have people that submit information, and we have our people that submit information. And then it comes before the court, and the court then has to make a determination. We have to stand by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right.
Trump: Why do you say that, though? I don't know. I mean, sure, we can play this game with the courts, but why do you say that? First of all, they don't even assign us a judge. They don't even assign us a judge. But why wouldn't you ... Hey Brad, why wouldn't you want to check out [name] ? And why wouldn't you want to say, hey, if in fact, President Trump is right about that, then he wins the state of Georgia, just that one incident alone without going through hundreds of thousands of dropped ballots. You just say, you stick by, I mean I've been watching you, you know, you don't care about anything. "Your numbers are right." But your numbers aren't right. They're really wrong, and they're really wrong, Brad. And I know this phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know - Look, ultimately, I win, okay? Because you guys are so wrong. And you treated this. You treated the population of Georgia so badly. You, between you and your governor, who is down at 21, he was down 21 points. And like a schmuck, I endorsed him, and he got elected, but I will tell you, he is a disaster.
The people are so angry in Georgia, I can't imagine he's ever getting elected again, I'll tell you that much right now. But why wouldn't you want to find the right answer, Brad, instead of keep saying that the numbers are right? 'Cause those numbers are so wrong?
Mitchell: Mr. Secretary, Mr. President, one of the things that we have been, Alex can talk about this, we talked about it, and I don't know whether the information has been conveyed to your office, but I think what the president is saying, and what we've been trying to do is to say, look, the court is not acting on our petition. They haven't even assigned a judge. But the people of Georgia and the people of America have a right to know the answers. And you have data and records that we don't have access to.
And you can keep telling us and making public statement that you investigated this and nothing to see here. But we don't know about that. All we know is what you tell us. What I don't understand is why wouldn't it be in everyone's best interest to try to get to the bottom, compare the numbers, you know, if you say, because ... to try to be able to get to the truth because we don't have any way of confirming what you're telling us. You tell us that you had an investigation at the State Farm Arena. I don't have any report. I've never seen a report of investigation. I don't know what that is. I've been pretty involved in this, and I don't know. And that's just one of 25 categories. And it doesn't even. And as I, as the president said, we haven't even gotten into the Dominion issue. That's not part of our case. It's not part of, we just didn't feel as though we had any to be able to develop -
Trump: No, we do have a way, but I don't want to get into it. We found a way in other states. ... excuse me, but we don't need it because we're only down 11,000 votes, so we don't even need it. I personally think they're corrupt as hell. But we don't need that. All we have to do, Cleta, is find 11,000-plus votes. So we don't need that. I'm not looking to shake up the whole world. We won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But if you go by basic, simple numbers, we won it easily, easily. So we're not giving Dominion a pass on the record. We don't need Dominion because we have so many other votes that we don't need to prove it any more than we already have.
Hilbert: Mr. President and Cleta, this is Kurt Hilbert, if I might interject for a moment. Ryan, I would like to suggest that just four categories that have already been mentioned by the president that have actually hard numbers of 24,149 votes that were counted illegally. That in and of itself is sufficient to change the results or place the outcome in doubt. We would like to sit down with your office, and we can do it through purposes of compromise and just like this phone call, just to deal with that limited category of votes. And if you are able to establish that our numbers are not accurate, then fine. However, we believe that they are accurate. We've had now three to four separate experts looking at these numbers.
Trump: Certified accountants looked at them.
Hilbert: Correct. And this is just based on USPS data and your own secretary of state data. So that's what we would entreat and ask you to do, to sit down with us in a compromise and settlements proceeding and actually go through the registered voter IDs and the registrations. And if you can convince us that 24,149 is inaccurate, then fine. But we tend to believe that is, you know, obviously more than 11,779. That's sufficient to change the results entirely in and of itself. So what would you say to that, Mr. Germany?
Germany: I'm happy to get with our lawyers, and we'll set that up. That number is not accurate. And I think we can show you, for all the ones we've looked at, why it's not. And so if that would be helpful, I'm happy to get with our lawyers and set that up with you guys.
Trump: Well, let me ask you, Kurt, you think that is an accurate number. That was based on the information given to you by the secretary of state's department, right?
Hilbert: That is correct. That information is the minimum, most conservative data based upon the USPS data and the secretary of state's office data that has been made publicly available. We do not have the internal numbers from the secretary of state. Yet we have asked for it six times. I sent a letter over to ... several times requesting this information, and it's been rebuffed every single time. So it stands to reason that if the information is not forthcoming, there's something to hide. That's the problem that we have.
Germany: Well, that's not the case, sir. There are things that you guys are entitled to get. And there's things that under law, we are not allowed to give out.
Trump: Well, you have to. Well, under law, you're not allowed to give faulty election results, okay? You're not allowed to do that. And that's what you done. This is a faulty election result. And honestly, this should go very fast. You should meet tomorrow because you have a big election coming up, and because of what you've done to the president - you know, the people of Georgia know that this was a scam - and because of what you've done to the president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote. And a lot of Republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president. Okay? They hate it. And they're going to vote. And you would be respected. Really respected, if this thing could be straightened out before the election. You have a big election coming up on Tuesday.
And I think that it is really is important that you meet tomorrow and work out on these numbers. Because I know, Brad, that if you think we're right, I think you're going to say, and I'm not looking to blame anybody, I'm just saying, you know, and, you know, under new counts, and under new views, of the election results, we won the election. You know? It's very simple. We won the election. As the governors of major states and the surrounding states said, there is no way you lost Georgia. As the Georgia politicians say, there is no way you lost Georgia. Nobody. Everyone knows I won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But I'll tell you it's going to have a big impact on Tuesday if you guys don't get this thing straightened out fast.
Meadows: Mr. President, this is Mark. It sounds like we've got two different sides agreeing that we can look at those areas, and I assume that we can do that within the next 24 to 48 hours, to go ahead and get that reconciled so that we can look at the two claims and making sure that we get the access to the secretary of state's data to either validate or invalidate the claims that have been made. Is that correct?
Germany: No, that's not what I said. I'm happy to have our lawyers sit down with Kurt and the lawyers on that side and explain to him, hey, here's, based on what we've looked at so far, here's how we know this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong.
Meadows: So what you're saying, Ryan, let me let me make sure ... so what you're saying is you really don't want to give access to the data. You just want to make another case on why the lawsuit is wrong?
Germany: I don't think we can give access to data that's protected by law. But we can sit down with them and say -
Trump: But you're allowed to have a phony election? You're allowed to have a phony election, right?
Germany: No, sir.
Trump: When are you going to do signature counts, when are you going to do signature verification on Fulton County, which you said you were going to do, and now all of a sudden, you're not doing it. When are you doing that?
Germany: We are going to do that. We've announced -
Hilbert: To get to this issue of the personal information and privacy issue, is it possible that the secretary of state could deputize the lawyers for the president so that we could access that information and private information without you having any kind of violation?
Trump: Well, I don't want to know who it is. You guys can do it very confidentially. You can sign a confidentiality agreement. That's okay. I don't need to know names. But we got the information. But on this stuff that we're talking about, we got all that information from the secretary of state.
Meadows: Yeah. So let me let me recommend, Ryan, if you and Kurt will get together, you know, when we get off of this phone call, if you could get together and work out a plan to address some of what we've got with your attorneys where we can we can actually look at the data. For example, Mr. Secretary, I can you say they were only two dead people who would vote. I can promise you there are more than that. And that may be what your investigation shows, but I can promise you there are more than that. But at the same time, I think it's important that we go ahead and move expeditiously to try to do this and resolve it as quickly as we possibly can. And if that's the good next step. Hopefully we can, we can finish this phone call and go ahead and agree that the two of you will get together immediately.
Trump: Well, why don't my lawyers show you where you got the information. It will show the secretary of state, and you don't even have to look at any names. We don't want names. We don't care. But we got that information from you. And Stacey Abrams is laughing about you. She's going around saying these guys are dumber than a rock. What she's done to this party is unbelievable, I tell you. And I only ran against her once. And that was with a guy named Brian Kemp, and I beat her. And if I didn't run, Brian wouldn't have had even a shot, either in the general or in the primary. He was dead, dead as a doornail. He never thought he had a shot at either one of them. What a schmuck I was. But that's the way it is. That's the way it is. I would like you ... for the attorneys ... I'd like you to perhaps meet with Ryan, ideally tomorrow, because I think we should come to a resolution of this before the election. Otherwise you're going to have people just not voting. They don't want to vote. They hate the state, they hate the governor, and they hate the secretary of state. I will tell you that right now. The only people that like you are people that will never vote for you. You know that, Brad, right? They like you, you know, they like you. They can't believe what they found. They want more people like you. So, look, can you get together tomorrow? And, Brad, we just want the truth. It's simple.
And everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out. It's okay. It takes a little while, but let the truth come out. And the real truth is, I won by 400,000 votes. At least. That's the real truth. But we don't need 400,000 votes. We need less than 2,000 votes. And are you guys able to meet tomorrow, Ryan?
Germany: I'll get with Chris, the lawyer who's representing us in the case, and see when he can get together with Kurt.
Raffensperger: Ryan will be in touch with the other attorney on this call, Mr. Meadows. Thank you, President Trump, for your time.
Trump: Okay, thank you, Brad. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Bye.
At one point Trump says he knows that he won Georgia because a lot of people showed up at his rallies. Tacos, is that evidence that Trump won Georgia ? He thinks it is.
The president of the USA is telling Raffensperger that he lied to the public.
The president of the USA is telling the SoS of Georgia that he is incompetent.
No veiled threat here.
Okay, that is enough. Listening to this crap the first time was bad enough. What an embarrassment to this nation.
LOL. And that is the person who said he didn't want people to panic. (taped conversation with Bob Woodward)
And all his rabid sycophants want is the blood of those bold enough to let people hear the truth from the fat lying horses mouth. They are more upset that this was leaked than they are about the content of the calls which were arguably criminal. What a bunch of sad sacks of shit.
It is incredible is it not? There is no wiggle room here. There is no denying what Trump said.
The only rat bagged on that call was King Rat Trump.
he's one fat rat too ...
One thing I know about rats is that they usually come out at night when nobody is around.
One thing I know about rats is that they usually come out at night when nobody is around.
One of them just won the formally prestigious medal of freedom award.
Lol! Mine is the comment of no value in this thread?
Not really. Anything you would like explained I'll be more than happy to help.
Well, bunker boy seems to fit that description.
What lead you to that conclusion Vic? Have you listened to the call and read the lawsuit?
What are you trying to pretend that the media is having trouble explaining?
Don't like the message? Kill the messenger...
What was the message?
Raffensperger said that he did not record the call but evaded the key details on taping and timing of the release.
MacCallum pressed him on why release the tape just a day before the election and Raffensperger deflected the questions.
He indicated that the release was a type of retaliation. I guess we can place him in the John McCain class.
He said that he blames Perdue for threats against his wife after calling for his resignation.
The Message seems to be that revenge is best served hot to do maximum damage to a Republican Senator.
The call was on Saturday, they release the tape to the media on Sunday. It was stupid of Trump to make such a call just days before the run-off election but there was no holding on to it to release it at some "opportune" time by Raffensperger. That's complete hogwash. Only Trump brown nosing sycophant loyalists would be upset by the release and not the content of this arguable criminal attempt to threaten a State into overturning an election. I guess some just fucking hate democracy when it doesn't work the way they want it to and elect their preferred sad sack of shit candidate.
The fact is, the WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE was to elect Joe Biden, plain and simple. Trump sycophants are attempting to overturn the WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE and should be seen as the slimy undemocratic traitors they are.
The 'message' from your seed seems to be that Trump isn't culpable for anything and his sycophants will fabricate bullshit to defend him.
It's interesting that you don't question the 'timing' of Trump's call. The case that you and they pretend the call was about will be heard by a Judge TODAY. The VAST majority of the bullshit that Trump blathered about aren't even cited in that filing and the VAST majority of the machinations that are in the filing have already been refuted. If they thought they had a winning case, they wouldn't have made the call.
That donald is a complete piece of shit that believes in conspiracy theories and is trying to subvert an election.
Of course you know that. You are only trying to blame the people that are turning on a light to the cockroaches infesting the Whitehouse.
I would too. Anyone would. Has nothing to do with him releasing the recording, even though you want it to for some revenge angle...
The desperation of trying to make the people that made the call into the victims is laughable.
Pathetic even.
Well I'm pretty sure that Cleta Mitchell will be whining about being a victim since her law firm stated that they have a policy NOT to represent candidates in the 2020 race. She may be unemployed soon.
The call was just the latest of 19 calls.
It seems that you're always dealing with bullshit!
If they thought they had a winning case, they wouldn't have made the call.
Does that hold true for the Secretary of State? Why can't the people see what went on?
I don't even think he thinks he can overturn the election. He has to act out the role.
I would too.
I'm sorry to hear that.
No Tarot cards
You really think he is acting out a role on that call? Sorry no, sounds like he actually believes himself.
So you are going to tell me that you would not be upset? A person in his own party, that is suppose to be on his side, have the same goals, now says he is basically a traitor, should resign, should not have the office and because of his and donald's rhetoric his wife received death threats.
Bullshit you would not be upset.
Oh, I forgot. Some people cannot see outside of the donald blinders.
Why? What is the value of this pretense?
Truncating others comments to pretend to make a point is cowardice.
Since the call was initiated by TRUMP, your question is moot.
Oh and BTFW, you must have missed the FACT that it was Trump's lawyer that asked for a 'Compromise and Settlement' meeting Vic.
Didn't you hear Trump say they have zoomed in video in slow motion?
Of course not, he's trying to get others to 'flip' states FOR him.
Where the fuck is THAT written Vic.
Trump is instigating this entire debacle and HE has scripted this role only HE had any desire to play.
One of Trump's main "arguments" is that fake ballots were hidden in suitcases under a table and after most of the election workers went home the suitcases were pulled out by a woman named -------- --------- and she orchestrated a fraudulent count of those votes, even going so far as to run some of them through the scanner 3 or 4 times.
Today at the Georgia secretary of states press conference to rebut Trump they explained completely what happend with the "suitcases" and the multiple scans. It was explained completely and nothing wrong was done. Trump used the woman's name multiple times and defamed her. I hope there is a way for her to sue.
I will say this for Trump, in the phone call Saturday Trump talked and talked and talked, he talked much more than all the rest of the people on the call put together. Trump has memorized an entire scenario of the election in Georgia being stolen from him, and he regurgitated it and regurgitated it. Problem is almost all of it is not true. Of course a little thing like having to lie doesnt hold Trump back.
Indeed that phone call was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Reminds me of this clip from the movie Billy Madison
So we keep hearing. I know! Maybe Raffensperger could find the fortitude to release all this proof he has to the American people.
Georgia did TWO recounts of the ballots which were witnessed by observers and covered by CTV.
Georgia also did an audit of the Cobb County, the ONLY place where there were 'credible' questions about signatures. That audits findings were published on the SoS's website:
So please tell me, WTF will it take for you to admit that Trump LOST?
Ooooo a 'secret consent decree', sounds nefarious.
What it is in reality though is BS. There was no SECRET consent decree Vic. In fact, there was NO 'consent decree' at all.
There WAS a 'Compromise and Settlement Agreement and Release' that was filed with the court and distributed to election officials all over Georgia.
Oh and BTFW, contrary to your claim, that agreement states as follows:
But WAIT, there's MORE.
Stacy Abrams wasn't even a party in the agreement.
So that whole paragraph of your screed is utter bullshit.
But hey, thanks for playing...
Tell us how many registrar or clerks actually took the time to do that during the initial count?
Be specific and provide us a link
This Reuters article might help you out.
Maybe you should have read the article before posting it.
Georgia is not even on the list of states that use the device.
Vic, you're deflecting from you false allegation by asking a ridiculous question. Sad.
I provided evidence to PROVE your allegations were ALL bullshit Vic. Deal with it.
Oh and BFTW, I asked questions that you failed to answer.
Tell us how many did not. Provide A Link.
[deleted] The electoral college votes will be certified on the 6th and Biden will become president on the 20th. Trump cult can spew all the nonsense they want, won't change the facts.
Some day another pathological psycho populist will get swept into power, but under the Democrat banner, and all this defense of Trump’s behavior will be used as precedent for defending a much smarter villain.
There are a couple dozen comments on this seed that are "locked". No explanation, nothing.
Why bother to post?
All you have to do is look. Looks like a slap fight brewing to me. And there are very few who can lock a thread. Take it up with them.
Wow, I just looked under the cushions on the sofa and guess what I found?
11,780 ballots. Whoda thought.
American is saved, give me an Amen.
Amen! And pass the Borsht!