Transcript: President Trump’s Telephone Name With Georgia Election Officers

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Transcript: President Trump’s Telephone Name With Georgia Election Officers

MARK MEADOWS, White Home chief of workers: So, Mr. President, if I, if I'd have the ability to bounce in, and I’ll give Brad an opportunity. Mr. Se


MARK MEADOWS, White Home chief of workers: So, Mr. President, if I, if I’d have the ability to bounce in, and I’ll give Brad an opportunity. Mr. Secretary, one, clearly, there may be, there are allegations the place we consider that not each vote or truthful vote and authorized vote was, was counted. And that’s at odds with the illustration from the secretary of state’s workplace. What I’m longing for is there are a way that we will, we will discover some type of settlement to, to, to have a look at this a bit of bit extra absolutely. As you understand, the president talked about Fulton County, however in a few of these areas the place there appears to be a distinction of the place the info appear to steer. And so, Mr. Secretary, I used to be hopeful that, you understand, in a spirit of cooperation and compromise, is there, there’s one thing that we will at the least have a dialogue to have a look at a few of these allegations to discover a path ahead that’s much less litigious.

RAFFENSPERGER: Nicely, I’ve listened to what the president has simply mentioned. President Trump, we’ve had a number of lawsuits, and we’ve needed to reply in court docket to the lawsuits and the contentions of — we don’t agree that you’ve got one. We don’t, I didn’t agree in regards to the 200,000 quantity that you just talked about. And I am going via that time by level. What we had finished is we gave our State Senate about one and a half hours of, of our time going via the election concern by concern. After which on the State Home, the Authorities Affairs Committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going again level by level on all the problems of rivalry. After which only a few days in the past, we met with our U.S. congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time speaking about this previous election. Going again primarily what you’re, what you’ve talked about right here, centered in on primarily, I consider it’s the absentee poll course of, I don’t consider that you just’re actually questioning the Dominion machines as a result of we did a hand re-tally, a 1 % re-tally of all of the ballots and in contrast that to what the machine mentioned. And it got here up with nearly the identical outcome. Then we did the recount. We’ve received nearly the identical outcome. So I, I suppose we might most likely take that off the desk. I don’t suppose there’s a problem about that. I believe what you have been —

TRUMP: Nicely, Brad, Brad, not that there’s not a problem, however as a result of now we have a giant concern with Dominion and different states and maybe in yours. However now we have, we haven’t felt we would have liked to go there, and simply to, you understand, perhaps put a bit of completely different spin on what Mark is saying. Mark Meadows. Yeah, I want to go additional, however we don’t actually need to. We have now all of the votes we want. , we received the state. In case you took, these are essentially the most minimal numbers, the numbers that I gave you. These are numbers which are licensed, your absentee ballots despatched to vacant addresses, your, your out-of-state voters, 4,925.

, once you add them up, it’s many extra instances, it’s many instances the 11,779 quantity. So we might undergo. We have now not gone via your Dominion, so we will’t give them blessing. I imply, in different states we predict we discovered large corruption with Dominion machines, however we’ll need to see. However, however we, we solely misplaced the state by 11 thous — by, by that quantity, 11,000 votes and 779. So with that being mentioned, with simply what now we have. And, you understand, with simply what now we have, we’re providing you with minimal, minimal numbers, we’re doing essentially the most conservative numbers attainable. We’re many instances, many, many instances above the, the margin. And so we don’t actually need to, Mark — I don’t suppose now we have to undergo the machines as a result of, as a result of what’s the distinction between successful the election by two, two votes and successful it by half 1,000,000 votes? I believe I most likely did win it by half a mill — I imply, you understand, one of many issues that occurred, Brad, is now we have different folks coming in now from Alabama and from South Carolina and from different states, and so they’re saying, ‘It’s not possible so that you can have misplaced Georgia.’ We received. , in Alabama, we set a file, received the best vote ever. In Georgia, we set a file with a large quantity of votes. They usually say, ‘It’s not attainable to have misplaced Georgia.’

And I might inform you by our rallies, I might inform you by the rally I’m having on Monday night time, the place, they have already got strains of individuals standing out entrance ready. It’s simply not attainable to have misplaced Georgia. It’s not attainable. Once I heard it was shut, I mentioned there’s no approach. However they dropped loads of votes in there late at night time, you understand that, Brad. And that’s what we’re engaged on very, very stringently. However no matter these votes, with all of it being mentioned, we misplaced by 11 to — primarily 11,000 votes. And now we have many extra votes already calculated and authorized too. So I simply don’t know. , Mark, I don’t know what’s the aim. I received’t give Dominion a move as a result of we’ve discovered too many unhealthy issues. However we don’t want Dominion or anything. We have now, now we have, now we have received this election in Georgia based mostly on all of this. And there’s, there’s nothing improper with saying that, Brad. , I imply, having the, having an accurate. The folks of Georgia are offended, and these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night time, together with others that we’re going to have by that point, that are rather more substantial even, and the folks of Georgia are offended, the folks of the nation are offended. And there’s nothing improper with saying that, you understand, um, that you just’ve recalculated as a result of the two,236 and absentee ballots, I imply, they’re all precise numbers that have been, have been finished by accounting companies, legislation companies, and so forth. And even in the event you lower ’em in half, lower ’em in half and lower ’em in half once more, it’s extra votes than we want.

RAFFENSPERGER: Nicely, Mr. President, the problem that you’ve got is the information you might have is improper. We, we talked to the congressmen, and so they have been stunned. However they — I suppose, there’s an individual named Mr. Brainard that got here to those conferences and introduced information, and he mentioned that there was useless folks, I consider it was upward of 5,000. The precise quantity have been two. Two. Two people who have been useless that voted. And so, that’s improper, that was two.

TRUMP: Nicely, Cleta, how do you reply to that? I imply, you inform me.

CLETA MITCHELL, Trump lawyer: I’ll say Mr. Secretary, one of many issues that now we have requested, and we did — What we mentioned was, and in the event you have a look at, in the event you learn our petition, it mentioned that we took the names and start years and, you understand, we had sure info accessible to us. We have now requested out of your workplace for data that solely you might have. And so we mentioned there’s a universe of people that have the identical title and identical start yr and died. However we don’t have the data that you’ve got, and one of many issues that now we have been suggesting formally and informally for weeks now’s to strive, is so that you can make accessible to us the data that may be essential to substantiate —



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