"Trump: And Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ‘em in three times.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times."
Trump is your crazy Uncle Donnie.
"Mitchell: ... our estimate is that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don’t know that. If you know that …
Trump: It was 18,000 ballots but they used each one three times.
Mitchell: Well, I don’t know about that.
Trump: I do think because we had ours magnified out."
JFC.
"Germany: We had our law enforcement officers talk to everyone who was who was there after that event came to light. GBI was with them as well as FBI agents.
Trump: Well, there’s no way they could — then they’re incompetent. They’re either dishonest or incompetent, okay?"
"Germany: Every one we’ve been through, are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately.
Trump: How may people do that? They moved out and then they said, 'Ah, to hell with it I’ll move back.'"
Just *too* funny.
Trump: I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. I’m just going by small numbers when you add them up they’re many times the 11,000. But I won that state by hundreds of thousands
"Germany: No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.
Trump: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?
Germany: No.
Trump: Are you sure, Ryan?
Germany: I’m sure. I’m sure, Mr. President."
This is *really* crazy
"Trump: The shredding of the ballots. Have they been shredding ballots?
Germany: There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that.
Trump: It doesn’t pass the smell test ... because we hear ..."
"... they’re shredding thousands and thousands of ballots and now what they’re saying, 'Oh, we’re just cleaning up the office.' Yeah."
Trump can't be convinced that what he's "hearing" are crazy rumours and lies. He believes he's right and everyone else is wrong, no matter what.
"Raffensperger: We believe that we do have an accurate election.
Trump: No, no you don’t. No, no you don't. You don’t have. Not even close. You’re off by hundreds of thousands of votes."
See? Trump will believe anything that agrees with his view of reality, and deny all else.
"Raffensperger: ... that settlement agreement did not change that one iota.
Trump: It’s not a settlement agreement, it’s a consent decree. It even says consent decree on it, doesn’t it? It uses the term consent decree. It doesn’t say settlement agree."
(continuation of previous tweet.)
"Trump: ... It’s a consent decree. It’s a disaster.
Raffensperger: It’s a settlement agreement."
The Smoking Gun:
"Trump: 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."
Right here, Trump is asking Raffensperger to manufacture 11,780 votes for Trump so that Trump can win Georgia.
"Germany: … Let me tell you what we are seeing. What we’re seeing is not at all what you’re describing, these are investigators from our office, these are investigators from GBI, and they’re looking and they’re good. And that’s not what they’re seeing."
"Trump: So, that’s the story. Look, we need only 11,000 votes. We have are 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?"
Yeah, that's a big illegal right there, Donnie.
"Trump: Oh, I don’t know, look Brad. I got to get … I have to find 12,000 votes and I have them times a lot. And therefore, I won the state. That’s before we go to the next step, which is in the process of right now."
How many times will Trump incriminate himself on tape?
"Trump: 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. You know, we have that in spades already."
Trump is literally begging Raffsenperger and Germany to find 11,000 votes for him. Illegal, illegal, illegal.
"Trump: Why don’t you want to find this, Ryan [Germany]? 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."
Ryan's last name is Germany. This is strangely hilarious.
"Trump: So tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this."
Trump is treating election results as though he's negotiating with a cement contractor. He thinks he can just wear Raffsenperger down to giving him votes.
"Trump: 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."
Donnie "Six Fingers" Trump talking here.
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