Donald Trump told Georgia official to find 11,780 votes
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“Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results”
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In the January 2, 2021 phone call, President Donald Trump explicitly told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” urging him to locate enough votes to change Georgia’s 2020 presidential election outcome. This request was documented in multiple contemporaneous reports and the released transcript.
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- FINAL REPORT of the Select Commitee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
In a now infamous telephone call on January 2, 2021, President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for more than an hour. The President confronted him with multiple conspiracy theories about the election—none of which were true. Raffensperger and other Georgia officials ...
- Here’s what Donald Trump asked Georgia election officials in phone call about 2020 election – PolitiFact
“No, no you don’t. No, no you don’t,” Trump told Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “You don’t have, you don’t have.
- Transcript and audio: Trump call with Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger - The Washington Post
In the hour-long conversation on Jan. 2, President Trump repeatedly tried to get Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to alter the outcome of the presidential vote.
- Georgia officials fact-check an infamous Trump phone call in real time : NPR
Notably, Trump had already been told repeatedly by top Justice Department officials that his claims about widespread voter fraud in Georgia — the claims he would go on to make in the 67-minute phone call with Raffensperger— were completely false.
- Fact check: Trump falsely claims Raffensperger said former president ‘didn’t do anything wrong’ on their 2021 phone call | CNN Politics
“He said, ‘That was a negotiation.’ Brad Raffensperger, who I was dealing with, I appreciate that he said that. But he said last week, I didn’t do anything wrong.” · Trump repeated moments later that Raffensperger “last week said I didn’t do anything wrong.” · Trump’s lie-filled efforts to pressure Raffensperger on the call were invoked in both Trump’s indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, over his efforts to subvert the election results in the state and his federal indictment over his broader election subversion efforts around the country.
- Fact checking Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state | CNN Politics
Facts First: There is no evidence of any large number of dead people in Georgia having ballots cast in their name. Raffensperger responded to Trump on the call that they’d found two votes cast in the name of dead people, not 5,000.
- Listen to Trump Pressure Georgia Official Over 2020 Election - The New York Times
In a 2021 telephone conversation, President Trump pushed Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to overturn the state’s election results, citing debunked claims of election fraud.
- Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election - The New York Times
Trump, who has spent almost nine weeks making false conspiracy claims about his loss to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., told Brad Raffensperger, the state’s top elections official, that he should recalculate the vote count so Mr.
- Trump heard on phone call urging Georgia officials to "find" enough votes to overturn presidential results - CBS News
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Mr. Trump told Georgia's secretary of state, according to audio obtained by CBS News.
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