President Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5.
The Trump campaign has responded to a full recording of a phone call obtained and released by The Washington Post on Sunday between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which focused on election integrity issues.
The Washington Post first released the hour-long call between Trump and Raffensperger on Saturday (Jan. 2), which also involved White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trump campaign attorney Cleta Mitchell and Raffensperger’s attorney Ryan Germany.
According to the full transcript of the call, the president listed specific allegations of election irregularities, including double voting, dead people voting, shredded ballots cast for him, and other allegations of “cheating” and “corruption” that he said denied him victory in Georgia.
But Raffensperger and Degerman repeatedly refuted Trump’s claims during the call, generally saying that the questions the president asked were inaccurate or had been investigated and proven false.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump team, tweeted on Jan. 3: “The full recording will show that the Joe Secretary of State (@GaSecofState) is still a hack and that President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) was correct in his criticism of Raffensperger’s poor work , all Georgia elected officials are trash and the President (@POTUS) won the state.”
The Epoch Times has reached out to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office for comment on Miller’s remarks.
Hours before The Washington Post reported the recording, Trump tweeted that he had asked Raffensperger about some election-related irregularities, and the president said the secretary of state was unwilling or unable to answer his questions.
“I spoke with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about voter fraud in Fulton County and Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘under the table ballot’ scam, ballot destruction, out-of-state ‘voters’, dead voters, etc. He has no clue!” Trump wrote.
After the meeting, Raffensperger tweeted in response to Trump’s statement saying, “Dear President Trump, You are telling lies and the truth will come out.”
According to the transcript of the call, Trump told Raffensperger that thousands of votes in the state were cast by the dead man.
Trump said, “So the people who died voted, I think the number was close to 5,000, and they went and checked the obituaries. They used a variety of methods to come up with an accurate number, at least close to about 5,000 voters.”
Raffensperger responded, “The actual number was two people, two people, two people who died voted.”
Trump also mentioned that some ballots were scanned three times, to which Raffensperger responded, “We conducted an audit of that and we proved conclusively that those ballots were not scanned three times.”
Other claims Trump made included illegal out-of-state voters voting in Georgia, thousands of people who were not on the voter registration rolls voting, and “hundreds of thousands of forged signatures” on the ballots. Trump told Raffensperger that “when you add it all up,” there were “a lot of irregularities” in the state of Joe, “many, many times more” than there were in the state of Georgia. “They say we lost by a margin of 11,779 (votes).”
After Trump listed his claims, Raffensperger said, “I listened to what the president just said. President Trump, we’ve had several lawsuits, and we’ve had to respond to lawsuits and arguments in court. We don’t agree that you’ve won.”
According to Gateway Pundit Media, Raffensperger’s team leaked the call to the Washington Post, which published a hit piece about the president’s call the next day.
David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, wrote in a tweet that Trump has filed two lawsuits against Raffensperger over the leaked call recordings. He wrote, “The President has filed two lawsuits against the Secretary of State of the State of Joe in federal (court) and state (court). The lawsuits are pending over a conference call in which the Joe Secretary of State secretly recorded ‘confidential agreement discussions.”
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