MTG lobs 'completely backward' new excuse for Trump's 'find me the votes' call
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday pushed a new excuse for former President Donald Trump's infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he demanded Raffensperger "find" him the votes he needed to overtake President Joe Biden.
Appearing on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, Greene claimed that Trump simply believed that a large batch of ballots had been lost in the mail and that he wanted Georgia's top election official to seek them out.
"When President Trump got on the phone with our secretary of state... and said, 'Can you find the votes, where are they?' he was basically looking for ballots and these ballots have been lost in the mail," she said.
"And so there was nothing wrong with what President Trump said. In fact, I think he'll be vindicated easily by a lot of the work that I'm doing."
However, Semafor political reporter Dave Weigel did a quick check of Greene's claim — and found it to be utterly false.
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"This is completely backwards," Weigel remarked on Twitter. "Trump wanted ballots already counted for Biden to be disqualified, until he (Trump) took the lead again."
He then posted relevant excerpts from Trump's call with Raffensperger that illustrated his point.
"We can go through signature verification and we'll find hundreds of thousands of signatures, if you let us do it," Trump told Raffensperger at one point.
"In Fulton [County], where they dumped ballots, you will find that you have many that aren't even signed and you have many that are forgeries... and you will find you will be at 11,779 [votes] within minutes because Fulton County is totally corrupt."
A little bit later in the call, Trump emphasized to Raffensperger that "the ballots are corrupt" and then hinted that the Georgia Republican could face legal consequences for not "reporting" on it.