Key Evvents this week:
January 3: the newly elected Congress is seated
January 6: the House and Senate meet jointly for a formal count of the electoral vote; 12th A: “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”
On Sunday the Washington Post released an hour long recording of a phone conversation between Trump and the Georgia Secretary of State, in which Trump is pressuring him to make him the winner in Georgia. Here is the recording and full transcript.
Here is the lead in the New York Times: President Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes to overturn the presidential election and vaguely threatened him with “a criminal offense” during an hourlong telephone call on Saturday, according to an audio recording of the conversation.
Below are key quotes from the transcript:
- so we’ve spent a lot of time on this, and if we could just go over some of the numbers… We think that if you check the signatures, a real check of the signatures going back in Fulton County, you’ll find at least a couple of hundred thousand of forged signatures
- You don’t need much of a number, because the number that in theory I lost by, the margin would be 11,779
- it’s been reported that they said there was a major water main break. Everybody fled the area, and then they came back, [name], her daughter and a few people…. Late in the morning, they went, early in the morning, they went to the table with the black robe, the black shield, and they pulled out the votes. Those votes were put there a number of hours before. The table was put there. I think it was, Brad, you would know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and then it was stuffed with votes.
- I mean you know, and I didn’t lose the state, Brad.
- The other thing, dead people, so dead people voted. And I think the, the number is in the close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters. The bottom line is when you add it all up, and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake ballots.
- You’re not the only one. I mean, we have other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly.
- RAFFENSPERGER: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they — people can say anything.
TRUMP: Oh, this isn’t social media. This is Trump media. It’s not social media. It’s really not, it’s not social media. I don’t care about social media. I couldn’t care less. Social media is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don’t even know why you have a side, because you should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican.
RAFFENSPERGER: We believe that we do have an accurate election.
- Potential Legal Threat: But the ballots are corrupt. And you’re going to find that they are — which is totally illegal, it is more illegal for you than it is for them, because you know what they did, and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer.
- And you can’t let it happen, and you are letting it happen. You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.
- And flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, this is — it’s a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it.
- Look, we need only 11,000 votes. We have far more than that as it stands now. We’ll have more and more. And, do you have provisional ballots at all, Brad? Provisional ballots?
- So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.
- Why don’t you want to find this, Ryan? What’s wrong with you? I heard your lawyer is very difficult, actually, but I’m sure you’re a good lawyer. You have a nice last name.
- And I think you have to say that you’re going to re-examine it, and you can re-examine it, but re-examine it with people that want to find answers, not people that don’t want to find answers.
- And I know this phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know — Look, ultimately, I win, OK? Because you guys are so wrong. And you treated this. You treated the population of Georgia so badly. You, between you and your governor, who is down at 21, he was down 21 points. And like a schmuck, I endorsed him, and he got elected, but I will tell you, he is a disaster.
Sunday night, Senator Tom Cotton came out in opposition of the January 6 scheme. Some others followed as the vote neared.
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