Trump pressuring Joe State election officials? Conservative media restore call to face WaPo

The Washington Post revealed a call between President Trump and Georgia officials, accusing Trump of asking the other side to “cobble together” enough votes to allow him to reverse his victory. But the conservative media restored the translation of the call, saying that Trump wants nothing more than an honest vote count, no pressure.

The call was made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who also belongs to the Republican Party. The Washington Post, which was the first to report the call, noted that Trump was sometimes flattering, sometimes pleading, and threatened Raffensperger with criminal consequences if he did not turn his defeat into a victory, but did not specify what the consequences would be.

However, conservative media Newsmax pointed out that the participants of the call also included Raffensperger’s lawyer Ryan Germany, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell, not just a private conversation between Trump and Raffensperger.

Trump cited numerous duplicate votes, dead votes and other election anomalies, but Raffensperger and Germaine refuted that the “anomalies” cited by Trump were only a few and were mostly under investigation. But Trump insists he won Georgia on Nov. 3, but lost because of widespread voter fraud.

Newsmax claims that the WaPo’s claim that Trump kept asking the other side to “get out” of the flip was simply a “false accusation” because the translation of the call showed that Trump was only asking for an honest count because he thought he could get 11,000 more votes and win.

Newsmax compiled excerpts from the translation, including Trump’s suggestion that tens of thousands of people in Georgia went to the polls on Nov. 3 and were told they couldn’t vote because records showed their votes had already been cast, and that “there were, as I understand it, I believe about 4,502 voters who weren’t even on the voter registration rolls who voted,” Trump said.

Trump also claimed that there were fraudsters in Fulton County who were in the business of casting votes. They arrived claiming that a major water main had broken and asked everyone to leave the counting center, and then the fraudsters returned to the counting center with a group of people.

Trump also told the other side that Georgia had 4,925 voters from other states running to vote and nearly 5,000 dead votes, and that the total voter fraud added up to no less than 300,000 inaccurate votes, but he only needed 11,000 votes to win.