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   Its Not A Hoax ☑️ (pdflynn@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 11:44:03 JST Its Not A Hoax ☑️

   EXCLUSIVE
   ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

   By Amy Gardner
   January 3, 2021 at 9:59 p.m. EST

   President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that legal scholars described as a flagrant abuse of power and a potential criminal act.

   The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”

   Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining...
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

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     Read the full transcript of the Trump-Raffensperger call
     https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d33575e5-2a04-37ca-a078-c45543fe3f36