The Washington Post office building in Washington, D.C.
On Sunday (Jan. 3), the Washington Post released an edited recording claiming that President Trump pressured the Joe Secretary of State to find enough votes for him to flip the state’s election results. A conservative commentator dismissed the WaPo’s report and demanded that it release the full recording of the call.
The Washington Post, which has been working to attack Trump, reported Sunday that Trump urged his Republican “partner,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in a phone call Saturday to “find” enough votes to reverse his “defeat” in the Joe state.
The report said Trump begged Raffensperger to help him find 11,780 votes, while threatening Raffensperger with criminal consequences if he refused the request.
The report also said that election experts said the hour-long phone call “raises legal questions.
U.S. media outlets quickly picked up the story, which then topped Google‘s Hot 100.
However, according to The Gateway Pundit, a conservative news site, Trump called Raffensperger and Joe State election officials for an hour, firmly believing he had won the state and telling them they would take legal risks for election fraud.
Raffensperger’s team then leaked a recording of the call to the leftist media outlet WaPo, which took 24 hours to release an edited recording.
Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he spoke with Laffensperger by phone Saturday about election fraud in Fulton County and across the state. But Raffensperger was unwilling and unable to answer questions like the “under the table ballot” scandal, the destruction of ballots, out-of-state “voters” and dead voters, and he had no clue.
Trump was referring to the Fulton County scandal in which a supervisor at a county counting center left four people counting ballots secretly on election night Nov. 3 after falsely claiming a water main break and evicting all the supervisors. Video of the incident had been shown at a hearing held by the state legislature and had been widely circulated on social media.
The media is clearly trying to use the edited recording and the overwhelmingly biased coverage to attack Trump. In response to the reports, conservative American commentator and radio host Todd Starnes tweeted that the Joe Secretary of State secretly recorded the call and gave it to the WaPo, which then selected and edited the content for publication. He denounced this behavior and demanded that the outlet “release the full, unedited audio.
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