Officials located December recording of Trump call in a trash folder on Georgia investigator’s device

The audio of a one-hour January 2 phone call in which Trump repeatedly pressured Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the exact number of votes needed to nullify Biden’s victory. appeared shortly after the call. But the December call was only made public last week.

“It’s not every day, it probably won’t happen again in my life,” Watson told WSB.

It’s still unclear why Watson moved the audio of the call to his trash folder, but Watson told Winne that while he was surprised Trump called her, he didn’t feel any pressure from her. phone call.

“It’s something that isn’t expected, as I mentioned in the call that he knows I was surprised he took the time to do it,” Watson said.

Trump in the December call had encouraged Watson to try to uncover “dishonesty” in his signature checks by voting absences in Fulton County, the state’s most populous county and the one that houses most of Atlanta.

“But if you go back two years and if you can get to Fulton, you’re going to find things that are going to be amazing,” the former president said. “The dishonesty we’ve known. But Fulton is the sinking mother.”

Later, in the phone call, Trump told Watson that he hoped “we could” win Georgia and that “you have the most important job in the country right now.”

The report has been added to examples of Trump’s extraordinary efforts to push out false allegations of widespread electoral fraud and influence Georgia’s election officials while certifying the state’s election results.