Current Events > WaPo has a recording of Trump's call with Georgia's Secretary of State

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Kingbuffet posted...

Where did I say that? Im saying Bezos shouldnt use his money to influence politics. If he owns Washington Posts then he cant be fighting with the President

Washington Post is a legendary journalism source. They broke the Watergate scandal.

This is the kind of journalism they do.

And this is precisely the kind of thing you can't spin. An actual recording of the president committing a crime.


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I agree that the consolidation of major media outlets into fewer and richer hands is a big problem that needs addressing, but the Washington Post publishing audio that makes the president look bad is not a symptom of that problem.

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This should absolutely fire up another Impeachment.
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Kingbuffet posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

So billionaires that disagree with the President shouldn't own media companies?

Where did I say that? Im saying Bezos shouldnt use his money to influence politics. If he owns Washington Posts then he cant be fighting with the President

Influencing politics is literally one of the biggest reason most newspapers were started.

Your lack of education is showing.
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Prestoff posted...

https://youtu.be/o3hrN0cP58Y

Washington Post just leaked it.

The saddest thing is nothing will come of this. His fanbase will laugh it off like it's nothing and say things like "See, what he really meant was..."

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Antifar posted...

I agree that the consolidation of major media outlets into fewer and richer hands is a big problem that needs addressing, but the Washington Post publishing audio that makes the president look bad is not a symptom of that problem.

Thats what am saying too. Im just bad at articulating these facts. For that I apologize. Good to have civil discourse though.

Antifar posted...

I agree that the consolidation of major media outlets into fewer and richer hands is a big problem that needs addressing, but the Washington Post publishing audio that makes the president look bad is not a symptom of that problem.

I'm a Republican, and believe me I cannot stand how biased the media is when it comes to anything that isn't left-wing.

With that said, obtaining recordings like this is good journalism. Expose the corruption for what it is - unedited and in the raw, pure form that can't be denied.


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Bio1590 posted...

This should absolutely fire up another Impeachment.

Why, so two Republican senators can vote to impeach instead of one?

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"DID THEY MOVE MACHINERY!?"
No
"OK BUT DID THEY REMOVE THE INNER PARTS AND REPLACE THEM!?"
No
"ARE YOU SURE!?"

"they are shredding ballots....in my opinion...based on what i've heard"

I fuckin hate this idiot.

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DarkRoast posted...

unedited and in the raw, pure form that can't be denied.

Gonna disagree with that. There was a literal Transcript of the Ukraine call and people still denied it happened. You're not dealing with people who have a solid grasp on reality.
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Oh boy here we go yungoos

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17 days i hope New York takes all his money and puts him in jail

Raffensperger responded: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong.

lol

wish more people had started talking to him that way years ago

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Kingbuffet posted...

Where did I say that? Im saying Bezos shouldnt use his money to influence politics. If he owns Washington Posts then he cant be fighting with the President

lmao

DarkRoast posted...

I'm a Republican, and believe me I cannot stand how biased the media is when it comes to anything that isn't left-wing.

lmao

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Impeach him again

If he's gonna commit crimes until his last day in office people should remember it

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Impeach him again

If he's gonna commit crimes until his last day in office people should remember it

why give republicans yet another chance to prove they dont give a damn about what trump does?

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Just watched the video. Trump just added 5 more years to his prison sentence with that move. Oof to the alt-right.

This is cartoonishly dumb.
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You would think this guy would learn by now that everybody he talks to on the phone is recording the conversation.

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Kingbuffet posted...

Just watched the video. Trump just added 5 more years to his prison sentence with that move. Oof to the alt-right.

only if GA goes after him, too. they might, but it's nowhere near as likely as NY.

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Kingbuffet posted...

Where did I say that? Im saying Bezos shouldnt use his money to influence politics. If he owns Washington Posts then he cant be fighting with the President

So the news should not talk politics. Got it.

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Medussa posted...

only if GA goes after him, too. they might, but it's nowhere near as likely as NY.

New York got ahead of the pack because they dont want him to move back there. They know hell ruin the city if comes back. Florida is next next to charge Trump because his neighbors dont want him to stay Maralago and causing too much of a nuisance. Other states are keeping coy because they want to all the is and cross all the ts when charging Trump making sure their case will count. But youre right New York is just the first trial for Trump.

Somebody finally posted it on r/conservative

It was deleted after a few minutes lol

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monkmith posted...

why give republicans yet another chance to prove they dont give a damn about what trump does?

It's needed right now

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billcom6 posted...

Somebody finally posted it on r/conservative

It was deleted after a few minutes lol

Lol they hate anything that incriminates their idol, its a deepfake lol

@darkprince

His cult will just ignore it. Oh thats not what he meant by find votes

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Antifar posted...

Why, so two Republican senators can vote to impeach instead of one?

Yeah might as well force them to publicly vote on it.
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Yet another huge crime committed by this criminal scumbag

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billcom6 posted...

Somebody finally posted it on r/conservative

It was deleted after a few minutes lol

Lmao. Gotta get rid of anything that exposes Trump

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And yet nothing will happen to him.

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Antifar posted...

Thats a criminal offense, he said. And you cant let that happen. Thats a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer."

Thank you, Republicans, for bending over backwards for a dictator and paving the way for someone even worse than him to show up the next time, hell, he may even come back in 4 years and make good on those threats.

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Strider102 posted...

The saddest thing is nothing will come of this. His fanbase will laugh it off like it's nothing and say things like "See, what he really meant was..."

Just look at the cesspool that is Neogaf. Here's a point from one of the many countless chuds in that toxic forum:

This isn't gaining the traction that people are expecting because there are too many pauses and cut segments that for some parts of the 4 minute "compilation", we don't even have context for those parts of the conversation.

If Trump actually "threatened" (lol) the SOS, or said he wanted for him to "recalculate" votes, than just give us the whole recording of that segments since it wouldn't possibly contain anything classified and it would only add clarity to the statement that was spliced in the 4 min audio compilation.

The only reason why, that I can logically think of, for them immediately saying and rejecting pleas for the whole recording or larger parts of it, AFTER sending it to WP, is because there are likely several segments within the full 1-hour audio that the SOS and possibly others, don't want us to hear.

Some of the content cut doesn't make much sense either. For example, when Trump was accusing the lawyer of not being sure of whether Dominion removed parts form their voting machines, you can easily understand based on what was said, the part that was cutout was just the SOS lawyer once again just confirming that the rumor Trump heard was wrong, why would you cut THAT part out? There would have to be something around that which they felt they needed to omit.

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ChainedRedone posted...

The only reason why, that I can logically think of, for them immediately saying and rejecting pleas for the whole recording or larger parts of it, AFTER sending it to WP, is because there are likely several segments within the full 1-hour audio that the SOS and possibly others, don't want us to hear.

lmao what is wrong with these people

heres what he actually said, sheeple!!
So look. Let's talk about something else. All I want to do is this. I'm buying christmas present and im letting people vote for what i buy poor orphaned kids. Melania wants to buy a toy boat, but i disagree! I'm trying to get people on my side. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Hey speaking of votes, did you see how i won Texas? Because we won the state.


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Kingbuffet posted...

Bezos owns Washington Post dont be ignorant

The Washington post is like one of those things that if you told Bezos he owned it he would say "what? When did I buy the washington post? Who even authorized that?"

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Update
https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1345834805951418370
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1345837379592966144


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i'm assuming WaPo edited for relevance, not GASoS/his lawyer giving an edited version to them, right? doubtful the full tape changes much, besides how many are willing to listen.

edit: yup

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Antifar posted...

Update
https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1345834805951418370

Ahhh yes, releasing more of this conversation of blatant illegal activities will surely clear things up.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

There's the transcript as well.

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Conservatives online are still "they only released a few minutes, its heavily edited" even though the entire call was posted hours ago.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Ahhh yes, releasing more of this conversation of blatant illegal activities will surely clear things up.

The other 35 minutes are Trump saying "Not!"

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The "it's edited/incomplete/cherrypicked" thing isn't a real argument, it's simply a signal to disbelieve for the people who want to disbelieve. That's why the full audio being posted doesn't actually matter.

It's a curious power that the right has over the minds of their true believers.

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billcom6 posted...

Conservatives online are still "they only released a few minutes, its heavily edited" even though the entire call was posted hours ago.

Timestamp shows within the last 30ish minutes to be fair.

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Serious Cat posted...

Timestamp shows within the last 30ish minutes to be fair.

Looks like it was posted at 3:33.
My sense of time is out of wack due to these NFL games.

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I'm listening to the whole thing right now

They're like "your attorney presented 5000 dead people who voted but the actual number is 2. 2 dead people voted"

(We already knew who one of them is. A guy tried to vote for his mom who died 5 years ago)

He's also blatantly accusing Stacy Abrams of "stuffing the ballots" her name is censored out but he's obviously talking about her.

He's also straight up denying the water pipe break in Fulton county ever happened.

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I wish Nixon was alive to see what people have supported Trump through.

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King_Hutton posted...

I wish Nixon was alive to see what people have supported Trump through.

I wish we had a social media presence in the 60s to see how things would have been.

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I'm skimming through the full audio, and somewhere around 23 minutes Trump brings up a video of someone messing with ballots, and the guy says that Rudy and his team "slice and diced" that video to make it look completely different. Apparently the full video doesn't show that series of events at all.

So yea, Trumps people are feeding him straight lies.

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Holy shit I had no idea this was only from yesterday
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Well hopefully he's right that a bunch of Republicans will decide they're too angry to vote on Tuesday.

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DarkRoast posted...

I'm a Republican, and believe me I cannot stand how biased the media is when it comes to anything that isn't left-wing.

With that said, obtaining recordings like this is good journalism. Expose the corruption for what it is - unedited and in the raw, pure form that can't be denied.

How is the media bias ? They bend over backwards to make republicans ghouls look less horrible than they really are .

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