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19 Mar, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Update: Last week, we uncovered records showing a call between an aide to Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and a Georgia elections official. Now, @Reuters has revealed the contents of that call.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
In the phone call, Meadows’s legislative advisor Cassidy Hutchinson reportedly asked Fuchs if there was anything the White House could do to show gratitude to the people conducting the audit of the election results, reports @LindaSoReports.
At the time, investigators reviewing signatures were working up to 15 hours a day and were reportedly discouraged by a tweet Donald Trump sent that said officials were “very slow” with the audit. Meadows was reportedly trying to “smooth that over.”
The Dec. 30 email also references Meadows’ visit to Georgia’s Cobb County in late Dec. This trip reportedly set in motion Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the Georgia election results that culminated in Trump's Jan. 2 call to Georgia’s sec. of state.
In the Jan. 2 call, Trump urged Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes to change the outcome of the election in Georgia in his favor. President Joe Biden won the state in the November election.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
This latest report fills in more details of efforts by Mark Meadows and the Trump White House to pressure Georgia to illegally overturn the election result. @Reuters reports that Meadows could face scrutiny in the Georgia criminal probe.
We’re continuing to investigate the attempts by Trump and his supporters to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Track our investigation and see the records we uncover here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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