Massive WaPo retraction: Trump did not ask Georgia to “find the votes”

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One of the more dishonest stories aimed at then-President Donald Trump was the one claiming he pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to steal the election. It was a very dishonest story that went through the news cycle for weeks. Democrats called for criminal charges against Donald Trump.

He was only asking for him to look for legitimate votes.

The Washington Post had released deceptively-edited audio of Trump telling Raffensperger to “find” fraudulent votes during a lawful audit and overturn the fraud that took place in Georgia.

Later in the day, the Washington Post released the full audio, but the fake news media had already deceived many misled followers into believing the lies.

The Washington Post also misquoted the investigator to support their tale. The retraction finally came today.

THE RETRACTION

In big news today, The Washington Post issued a retraction: 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.

They had the tape and either didn’t listen to it or just lied. They printed the fake news and it was spread broadly by other media. It’s now corrected months later after the damage is done.

There was no obstruction of justice in this case as WaPo proclaims.

Secretary of State Raffensperger selectively leaked the private conversation with President Trump at the time, and let the lies spread.


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sally
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sally
2 years ago

Of course you got the story wrong. The retraction wasn’t about the Raffensperger call. Can you learn how to do a little research before printing absurd stories about the Big Trump Con?

Daniel K.
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Daniel K.
2 years ago

Inconvenient Truth to your disingenuously deceptive and dishonest #FakeNews spin : . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The WAPO’s RETRACTION was pertaining to the phone call Trump had with Georgia election official Frances Watson. . . . Watson then briefed the Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs. . . . Fuchs then spoke to The Washington Post about the call. THAT PHONE CALL WAS NOT RECORDED, and the statement by Trump was being RELAYED thru THREE PARTIES, so of course without the exact recording and/or transcript, the WORDS said are not well-stated as actual QUOTES: WAPO RETRACTED WHAT THEY WROTE AS THE CONTENT STATED TO THEM BY FUCHS, SOMEONE WHO HAD NOT SPOKEN WITH TRUMP and was not saying nor suggesting it was first-hand quotes. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . .
IN YOU NOT DEFINITIVELY- STATING THERE”S TWO PHONE CALLS RO TRUMP TO GEORIA OFFICIALS, HERE IS WHERE YOUR DISHONEST AND DISINGENOUSLY- PRESENTED SPIN FAILS: . . . . . . . . Trump was RECORDED SPEAKNG WITH the Georgia Sect of State and he DID URGE THAT person in THAT OTHER PHONE CALL to , yes, ” FIND ” him the needed votes to flip the election in his favor. Trump, in pressuring GOP’s Georgia Sect of State Raffensperger to overturn the election results, said, and i QUOTE : ” I just want to FIND 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.” Trump is not only urging the Sect of State to, yes, FIND” the votes, he admittedly asked for exactly 11,780 votes, which he made clear would be the SINGLE VOTE over what he LOST the state by to Biden, that would then be the ONE “FOUND” to then overturn the state’s election results, and effectively hand the state’s win to him. >>>> Per #TheWallStreetJournal, a right-wing-leaning news outlet, they themselves DID post Trump’s RECORED PHONE CALL to Georgia’s Sect of State Raffensperger, and, again, where Trump called for him to ” FIND 11,780 votes” . This is NOT the OTHER PHONE CALL that was made to Watson and told to Fuchs about, but the TRUMP-RAFFESNPERGER PHONE CALL . https://www.wsj.com/video/listen-trump-pressures-georgias-raffensperger-to-find-him-votes/3EE95E0A-DD52-4B1E-981C-6115EA524277.html

Madmax
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Madmax
2 years ago
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This is for the silly ass comment by Daniel K.
First – The wapo fake news was exactly that – they retracted it because it clearly said something that never happened. It got proved recently.
Second – your claim about him asking sec of state to ‘find 11,780′ votes is also fake. Here is why. You are conveniently leaving out the context and after that changing what Trump actually asked the sec of state. Here is the paragraph from the call transcript that shows why you are either part of fake news or completely led by your nose to fake news:
“But an accurate number but its in the 50s of thousands— and that’s people that went to vote and they were told they can’t vote because they’ve already been voted for. And it’s a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the number’s large. We’ll have it for you. But it’s much more than the number of 11,779 that’s — The current margin is only 11,779. Brad, I think you agree with that, right? That’s something I think everyone — at least that’s’ a number that everyone agrees on.
But that’s the difference in the votes. But we’ve had hundreds of thousands of ballots that we’re able to actually — we’ll get you a pretty accurate number. You don’t need much of a number because the number that in theory I lost by, the margin would be 11,779….”
The call goes on. Basically Trump said, there was problems in hundreds of thousands of votes and the sec of state didnt even need to look at all hundreds of thousands. Just look at 11,780 irregularities and he would easily have the numbers. Also, there is a video done by a youtuber where he sent people to the addresses that were used to register voters and they led people to empty lots, warehouses, factory yards etc.

GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
3 years ago

How can you sue a paper for this kind of damage. The only right and just thing to do would be to just turn the whole paper over to the Trump Organization and that would begin to financially compensate the Nation for the Damage that story may have done.

Schrödinger's Litter Box
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Schrödinger's Litter Box
3 years ago

It was at the bottom of the cartoons page or underneath sports betting odds?
If a bird poops on the retraction does anyone see it?
Georgia you mean CCP colony south with the less white Cocalanta? (sarc)