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Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-03-15): Washington Post Issues Massive Correction to Report on Trump Call to Georgia Official That ‘Misquoted’ His Comments The Washington Post has issued a correction to an earlier story that had quoted former President Donald Trump as instructing a Georgia election official "find the fraud" in the state, after audio of the phone call was released. [...] Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to "find the fraud" or say she would be "a national hero" if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find "dishonesty" there. He also told her that she had "the most important job in the country right now." A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2024-09-08): December 23 phone call with chief elections investigator [edit]On December 23, 2020, Trump called the chief investigator for the Georgia secretary of state's office, who was then conducting a ballot audit in Cobb County. Raffensperger had ordered the audit in response to allegations of fraud. Trump asked her to scrutinize the ballots and said she would find "dishonesty". The Washington Post reported on the telephone conversation with apparent quotations of Trump's comments to the chief investigator. It based these quotations on an anonymous source purportedly familiar with the call. At the time of its reporting, it emphasized that Trump had instructed the investigator to "find the fraud" and that she would be a "national hero" if she did so. Based on this reporting, some legal experts said that this phone call appeared to be bribery or obstruction on Trump's part. On December 29, the audit ended. Georgia officials concluded that there was no fraud. Trump was unhappy with those results.[31] [...] - ^ a b c Mastrangelo, Dominick (March 15, 2021). "Washington Post adds lengthy correction to report on Trump call with Georgia elections investigator". The Hill. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2021. [...] - ^ "Correction: Trump-Georgia story". March 15, 2021. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-03-17): To catch you up in case you missed it: The Post attached a lengthy correction Monday to a big story it wrote two months ago about a phone conversation former President Donald Trump had with Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, about the presidential election. The original story said Trump told her to "find the fraud" and that she could become a "national hero." [...] This correction — and what led to it — only distracts, even if it’s slightly, the fact that Trump was calling the state of Georgia in a desperate attempt to overturn a result in which his opponent won fairly and squarely. [...] Correction: This story has been updated. The original version had the wrong timeframe for Donald Trump’s phone call to Georgia’s lead elections investigator. It was Dec. 23, 2020.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-03): 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. [...] Trump’s conversation with Raffensperger echoed his effort to persuade the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden on a call that led to his impeachment, and once again put him in legally questionable territory, legal scholars said. By exhorting the secretary of state to "find" votes and to deploy investigators who "want to find answers," the president appeared to be encouraging him to doctor the election outcome in Georgia, which could violate both state and federal law. [...] The secretary of state repeatedly sought to correct Trump, saying at one point, "Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they — people can say anything."
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-03): About 3 p.m. Saturday, President Trump held an hour-long call with Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, in which he repeatedly urged him to alter the outcome of the presidential vote in the state. He was joined on the call by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several lawyers, including longtime conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell and Georgia-based attorney Kurt Hilbert. Raffensperger was joined by his office’s general counsel, Ryan Germany, and Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs. [...] Mitchell: Mr. Secretary, Mr. President, one of the things that we have been, Alex can talk about this, we talked about it, and I don’t know whether the information has been conveyed to your office, but I think what the president is saying, and what we’ve been trying to do is to say, look, the court is not acting on our petition. They haven’t even assigned a judge. But the people of Georgia and the people of America have a right to know the answers. And you have data and records that we don’t have access to.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-07): On the first Sunday of 2021, journalists in two competing Washington newsrooms were listening to a leaked recording of President Donald Trump demanding that Georgia officials find him more votes and change the outcome of their election last November. The Washington Post published the first reports detailing the hour-long phone call of Trump cajoling and even threatening the Georgia secretary of state. But right after that, NPR and Georgia Public Broadcasting published matching stories. The report led Sunday afternoon's installment of All Things Considered. [...] This New York Times article is the best explanation of how and why the tape was leaked. The White House tried 18 times to get the Georgia officials on the line before finally connecting. Someone in the secretary of state's office recorded the call with the intention of releasing it if the president attacked them. On Sunday morning, Trump took to Twitter and the leaker reached out to reporters at The Post and GPB.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-02-12): An Atlanta-area prosecutor plans to scrutinize a post-Election Day phone call between Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of a criminal investigation into whether former president Donald Trump or his allies broke Georgia laws while trying to reverse his defeat in the state, according to a person familiar with the probe. [...] During their conversation, Graham asked the Georgia secretary of state whether he had the power to toss out all mail ballots in certain counties, Raffensperger told The Washington Post in an interview days later. He said Graham appeared to be asking him to improperly find a way to set aside legally cast ballots. [...] Willis announced Wednesday that her office would investigate potentially criminal attempts to influence the state election result, including calls Trump made to Raffensperger and to the state’s chief elections investigator.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-04): US election: Trump tells Georgia election official to 'find' votes to overturn Biden win - Published US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn the election result. "I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post, external.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2023-08-15): On Jan. 2, 2021 — just days before Congress was set to certify the election results — Trump called Raffensperger, the state’s top election official, and said he wanted to "find" the votes needed to reverse Biden’s narrow margin of victory in Georgia. Trump suggested that thousands of invalid votes could be found by scrutinizing absentee ballots in the Atlanta area. [...] On Dec. 5, Trump called Kemp to berate him for certifying Biden’s win in the state and to try to persuade him to call a special session of the legislature so that they could designate Trump’s electors rather than Biden’s, to set up the dueling elector scenario that Eastman had described, according to a Washington Post report at the time that Kemp later confirmed. Kemp told Trump that he did not have that authority. [...] In the one-hour call, Trump told Raffensperger he wanted to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat. He 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."
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2023-08-15): During a call on Jan. 2, 2021, former President Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R)to help him "find 11,780 votes" and overturn the state's 2020 election results in his favor. [...] Of note: Trump implied that Raffensperger or the state government would face legal trouble if the secretary did not help overturn the election results. [...] After the call, Trump claimed on social media that Raffensperger was "unwilling, or unable," to answer questions regarding election fraud conspiracy theories, even though in the call Raffensperger repeatedly said the state did not have evidence of widespread voter fraud but was continuing its investigation.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2022-02-28): In the turbulent weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger faced the media so many times that he felt he must have worn a groove in the marble between his office in a corner of the state Capitol in Atlanta and the grand atrium where he held news conferences. Now it was January 2022, a little more than a year after the infamous phone call in which defeated incumbent Donald Trump urged Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in the state. And Raffensperger was making the same walk again. [...] The other thing Raffensperger wanted to tell the public this week was that an entity impersonating his office was sending emails as part of a corporate registration phishing scam, trying to get people to click on suspicious attachments. In Georgia, the secretary of state does, in fact, handle such registrations. He also oversees investment securities, charities and cemeteries. He processes licenses for boxing and mixed martial arts. As in most states, the job evolved over two centuries from performing secretarial chores to being a jack of all bureaucratic trades — including elections, which in many years count for less than half the office’s annual budget, compared with all the other responsibilities.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2023-11-09): The letters add to the challenges facing election workers, who have been besieged by threats and harassment in recent years. At a news conference Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) confirmed that his office was alerted Wednesday to a letter containing fentanyl that was sent to election offices in Fulton County, Ga. Raffensperger, who lost his son to a fentanyl overdose five years ago, called the incident "domestic terrorism." He added in a statement that his office is "working with our state and federal partners to determine if any additional Georgia officials are being targeted." Both Raffensperger and Fulton County have been the subject of former president Donald Trump’s ire in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Raffensperger refused Trump’s demand to "find" enough votes in the state to overturn his defeat. And Trump faces federal charges brought in Fulton County alleging he participated in a criminal conspiracy to illegally overturn his 2020 loss. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-03-15): The Washington Post has added a lengthy correction to a bombshell report from early January that had said then-President Trump told Georgia’s top elections investigator during a phone call to "find the fraud" and that they would be "a national hero" if they did so. "Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source," the Post said Thursday in a 129-word correction published atop the story. [...] "When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised," Trump told Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, the Journal reported on Thursday.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2020-12-09): On Dec. 7, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, recertified the state’s results after an audit-triggered hand recount and a formal recount requested by the Trump campaign. Biden’s margin was about 12,000 votes, a decline of a few hundred votes. "Whether it is the president of the United States or a failed gubernatorial candidate, disinformation regarding election administration should be condemned and rejected," Raffensperger said, referring both to Trump’s claims and to Stacey Abrams’s 2018 Democratic run for governor. "Integrity matters. Truth matters." [...] Trump claim: The president brought up again a baseless claim that postal workers have tampered with ballots. At his Dec. 5 rally in Georgia, Trump said whistleblowers in multiple states have testified to witnessing postal workers and election workers illegally backdating thousands of ballots, fixing ballots, filling out false birthdays, registering ineligible voters and much more. On Nov. 11 and Nov. 15, Trump tweeted about a Pennsylvania postal worker, Richard Hopkins, who alleged that two days after the election, he heard the Erie postmaster say to a supervisor that they had "messed up" by failing to backdate the postmark on ballots that arrived after Election Day.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-04): US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia's top election official to "find" enough votes to overturn the election result. "I just want to find 11,780 votes," Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post. [...] In excerpts of Saturday's phone call released by the Washington Post, Mr Trump can be heard alternately cajoling and pressurising Georgia's secretary of state.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2021-01-09): Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to "find the fraud" or say she would be "a national hero" if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find "dishonesty" there. He also told her that she had "the most important job in the country right now." A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump. [...] Since Election Day, Trump has made at least three calls to government officials in Georgia in an attempt to subvert President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, beginning with a conversation with Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in early December to berate him for certifying the state’s election results. [...] Legal experts said Trump’s call to the secretary of state may have broken state or federal laws that bar the solicitation of election fraud or prohibit participating in a conspiracy against people exercising their civil rights.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2024-03-13): The six counts — which also implicate former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump campaign attorneys Robert Cheeley, John Eastman and Ray Smith — were related to an alleged pressure campaign against elected officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), members of the Georgia Senate and then-Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R), to undo Trump’s loss in the state. One of the three charges against Trump that was dropped was related to the phone call Trump and Meadows made to Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump told his fellow Republican he wanted to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia — a recorded conversation that sparked the investigation into Trump and his allies when it was made public. The second charge is related to a Dec. 7, 2020, phone call Trump made to Ralston urging him to convene a special session of the legislature to reverse Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the state. The third involves a letter Trump sent to Raffensperger in September 2021 calling on the secretary of state to overturn the election "and announce the true winner."
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2023-07-27): Donald Trump’s infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is now a key piece of evidence in the criminal investigations into the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. During the January 2, 2021, call, Trump invoked several false claims of widespread voter fraud to pressure Raffensperger to reverse the state’s election results, ranging from lies about out-of-state and dead voters to conspiracy theories about drop box stuffing and compromised election equipment. These false claims drove the January 6 attack on the Capitol and continue to damage our democracy. [...] The Brennan Center, public reporting, and a member of the Trump administration’s own voter fraud commission have all rebutted the various claims about out-of-state voting. With respect to Georgia in particular, a lawyer representing the secretary of state’s office clarified that "every one we’ve been through are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state but they moved back to Georgia legitimately." [...] During the phone call, Raffensperger explained to Trump that this "data" was "wrong." Georgia and other states use a wide range of procedures to make sure that requests for mail ballots come only from currently registered voters and take steps to reduce errors when sending mail ballots, including routine maintenance of voter rolls.
Claim: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.” (Maria Bartiromo, 2021-03-16)
Evidence (2022-05-13): Hampton told The Post she was unaware of guidance the Georgia secretary of state’s office had sent to county election administrators saying that voting equipment and software must not be released to the public absent a court order. And she questioned why access should be so restricted. [...] Plaintiffs played the nearly three-minute recording during depositions in February and March of two high-ranking deputies to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R). They later filed the audio in court. [...] Raffensperger’s office declined to comment for this report, citing the pending litigation and an ongoing investigation of the Coffee County matter. Attorneys for Raffensperger told the court last month that the secretary of state’s office launched the investigation as soon as it became aware of the recorded phone call. They said state officials have not found evidence of a security breach.
Claim: “There's no court session between now and the end of this election.” (Joe Biden, 2020-09-20)
Evidence (2020-09-20): According to the Supreme Court website, the justices have scheduled five days of oral arguments in October and two more in November before the polls close.
Claim: “There's no court session between now and the end of this election.” (Joe Biden, 2020-09-20)
Evidence (2020-09-20): Biden wrong to say Supreme Court has no session before Election Day [...] In the speech, Biden said the Constitution "was designed to give voters one chance, one chance to have their voice heard in who serves on the court. And by the way, there’s no court session between now and the end of this election." [...] That’s disproven by the Supreme Court’s own website, which lists five days of oral arguments in October and two more in November before the polls close.
Claim: “There's no court session between now and the end of this election.” (Joe Biden, 2020-09-20)
Evidence (2024-10-05): The lighter schedule would allow them to easily add election cases, if those make their way to the high court in the run-up to the Nov. 5 election between Republican Donald Trump and Harris, or its immediate aftermath.
Claim: “There's no court session between now and the end of this election.” (Joe Biden, 2020-09-20)
Evidence (2023-09-19): - Biden falsely claimed that "there’s no court session between now and the end of this election." The next Supreme Court session begins Oct. 5, nearly a full month before Election Day. [...] In arguing that voters should be given a "chance to have their voice heard in who serves on the court," Biden suggested in his Sept. 20 remarks that naming someone to replace Ginsburg could wait until after the election because "there’s no court session between now and the end of this election." That’s wrong; the next Supreme Court session begins Oct. 5, nearly one month before Election Day on Nov. 3. The justices are already scheduled to hear oral arguments in several cases between those two dates.