2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: [Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State: “We believe that we do have an accurate election.”]
“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. And just on the small numbers, you’re off on these numbers, and these numbers can’t be just — well, why wont? — Okay. So you sent us into Cobb County for signature verification, right? You sent us into Cobb County, which we didn’t want to go into. And you said it would be open to the public. So we had our experts there, they weren’t allowed into the room. But we didn’t want Cobb County. We wanted Fulton County. And you wouldn’t give it to us. Now, why aren’t we doing signature — and why can’t it be open to the public?
And why can’t we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find anything and don’t want to find anything? They don’t want to find, you know they don’t want to find anything. Someday you’ll tell me the reason why, because I don’t understand your reasoning, but someday you’ll tell me the reason why. But why don’t you want to find?”
-Donald Trump in a transcript of a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call with Georgia election officials, “Here’s the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger,” washingtonpost.com, Jan. 3, 2021