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Defendant responded, “I do not care a couple of hyperlink, I do not want it. I’ve a
a lot, [Georgia Secretary of State], I’ve a a lot better hyperlink.”
The Defendant requested about rumors that paper ballots forged within the election
had been being destroyed, and the Georgia Secretary of State’s Counsel
defined to him that the declare had been investigated and was not true.
The Defendant claimed that 5,000 useless individuals voted in Georgia, inflicting
the Georgia Secretary of State to reply, “Nicely, Mr. President, the
problem that you’ve got is the information you have got is unsuitable. . . . The precise
quantity had been two. Two. Two folks that had been useless that voted. And so
[your information]’s unsuitable, that was two.”
The Defendant claimed that hundreds of out-of-state voters had forged ballots
in Georgia’s election, which the Georgia Secretary of State’s Counsel
refuted, explaining, “We have been going by means of every of these as properly, and
these numbers that we obtained, that [Defendant’s counsel] was simply saying,
they are not correct. Each one we have been by means of are folks that lived
in Georgia, moved to a unique state, however then moved again to Georgia
legitimately… they moved again in years in the past. This was not like one thing
simply earlier than the election.”
In response to a number of different of the Defendant’s allegations, the Georgia
Secretary of State’s Counsel instructed the Defendant that the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation was analyzing all such claims and discovering no benefit to them.
The Defendant mentioned that he wanted to “discover” 11,780 votes, and insinuated
that the Georgia Secretary of State and his Counsel might be topic to
felony prosecution in the event that they failed to search out election fraud as he demanded,
stating, “And you’re going to discover that they are-which is completely unlawful—
it is, it is, it is extra unlawful for you than it’s for them as a result of you understand what
they did and you are not reporting it. That is a felony, you understand, that is a
felony offense. And you understand, you may’t let that occur. That is an enormous
danger to you and to [the Georgia Secretary of State’s Counsel], your lawyer.”
The following day, on January 3, the Defendant falsely claimed that the Georgia
Secretary of State had not addressed the Defendant’s allegations, publicly stating that the Georgia
Secretary of State “was unwilling, or unable, to reply questions such because the ‘ballots below desk’
rip-off, poll destruction, out of state ‘voters’, useless voters, and extra. He has no clue!”
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