In addition to former President Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia’s secretary of state, he joined two other phone calls with Georgia officials in the weeks after the 2020 election as he sought to overturn the election.
In this Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at Valdosta Regional Airport, in Valdosta, Ga. Donald Trump spoke to Frances Watson, an investigator with the Georgia secretary of state, in December 2020. He encouraged her to investigate ballots cast, particularly in Fulton County, a recording of their call shows.
His separate December 2020 phone calls with election investigator Frances Watson and then-House Speaker David Ralston, who died in 2022, have also been reviewed by the Fulton County district attorney investigating Trump's efforts to overturn election results in Georgia.. So we reviewed the substance about them. We have a recording of the call with Watson but not with Ralston.The exact date of Trump’s call with Watson isn’t clear, but it was in December 2020 before Christmas.
Trump said if Watson went back two or four years she would"see it's a totally different signature" and"hopefully when the right answer comes out you'll be praised." Fulton County, he said, was the"motherload.""I can assure you that our team, and the GBI , that we're only interested in the truth," she said."And finding the information that's based on the facts. We've been working 12-, 16-hour days.
"I know you've got that coming up," Watson said."And I can assure you that I'm going to be working, and we're going to be working."reported that Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, met Watson and got her phone number during a December 2020 visit at the Cobb County Civic Center, where a ballot review was taking place.
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