![]() When CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about that conversation last night, Trump insisted that "I didn't ask him to find anything." Rather, "I said you owe me votes because the election was rigged. That's a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer." The conspirators who supposedly stole the election for Biden had committed crimes, he said, and "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 offense. If Raffensperger refused to "find the right answer," Trump implied, he could face criminal charges. "What's wrong with you?" Addressing Raffensperger, he asked, "Why wouldn't you want to find the right answer, Brad, instead of keep saying that the numbers are right? 'Cause those numbers are so wrong." "Why don't you want to find this, Ryan?" he asked. Trump was frustrated by the resistance from Raffensperger and Germany. "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state." ![]() He insisted that all of the alleged irregularities amounted to "many, many times the 11,779 margin" by which Biden had won. Raffensperger and his office's general counsel, Ryan Germany, patiently refuted these allegations, saying there was no evidence to support them and no reason to believe that Biden had not in fact won Georgia's electoral votes. ![]() Among other things, Trump mentioned "300,000 fake ballots" that "were dropped mysteriously into the rolls" asserted that "dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000" said election workers counted Biden votes "three times" and took "18,000 ballots" out of "suitcases or trunks" and cited a "rumor" that "they shredded ballots in Fulton County." In a notorious phone conversation with Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, Trump pressed him to validate one bogus election-fraud claim after another. ![]() Both of those statements are false, and both go to the heart of potential criminal charges against the former president. Trump also said he had "the absolute right" to do whatever he wanted with presidential documents when he left the White House in January 2021. During his CNN "town hall" last night, Donald Trump claimed he never asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the votes necessary to reverse Joe Biden's 2020 victory in that state. ![]()
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