The audio file of the December 23 call between former president and investigator Frances Watson was discovered when Georgia’s foreign minister responded to a public record request. The personal acquaintance spoke to CNN about the condition of anonymity to describe the internal process.
State officials had earlier told CNN that they did not think the sound of Trump’s December call to Watson existed.
Sound of an hour-long phone call on Jan. 2 in which Trump repeatedly put Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger under pressure to “find” the exact number of votes needed to block Biden’s victory appeared shortly after the call happened. But the December call only became known last week.
“It’s not every day that will probably never happen again in my lifetime,” Watson told WSB.
It’s still not clear why Watson moved the sound of the call to her trash can, but Watson told Winne that although she was surprised that Trump called her, she did not notice any pressure from his phone call.
“This is something that is not expected, as I mentioned in the call, you know I was shocked that he would take the time to do that,” Watson said.
Trump in the December call urged Watson to expose ‘dishonesty’ in her signature for absentee ballots in Fulton County, the most populous state in the state and the state that houses most of Atlanta.
“But if you go back two years, and if you can come to Fulton, you will find things that are going to be incredible,” the former president said. ‘The dishonesty we heard from. But Fulton is the mother. ‘
Later during the phone call, Trump told Watson that he hopes we can win Georgia and that you now have the most important job in the country.
The report added examples of Trump’s extraordinary efforts to promote false allegations of widespread voter fraud and influence Georgia election officials when they confirmed the state’s election results.