This is the full transcript, lifted from the NYT.
TRUMP: OK, thank you very much. Hello, Brad and Ryan and everybody. We appreciate the time and the call, um, so we’ve spent a lot of time on this, and if we could just go over some of the numbers, I think it’s pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially, Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25 to 30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people, and it never made sense, but we have a number of things. We have at least two or three — anywhere from 250 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls. Much of that had to do with Fulton County, which hasn’t been checked. We think that if you check the signatures, a real check of the signatures going back in Fulton County, you’ll find at least a couple of hundred thousand of forged signatures of people with, whose, who have been forged, and we are quite sure that’s going to happen. Another, another tremendous number. We’re going to have an accurate number over the next two days with certified accountants, but an accurate number will be given, but it’s in the 50s of thousands, and that’s people that went to vote, and they were told they can’t vote because they’ve already been voted for, and it’s a very sad thing. They walked out complaining, but the number’s large. We’ll have it for you, but it’s very, it’s much more than the number of 11,779. That’s the current margin, is only 11,779. Brad, I think, I think you agree with that, right? That’s something I think everyone — at least that’s a number that everyone agrees on. But that’s the difference in the votes, but we’ve had hundreds of thousands of ballots that we’re able to actually, we’ll get you a pretty accurate number. You don’t need much of a number, because the number that in theory I lost by, the margin would be 11,779.
But you also have a substantial numbers of people, thousands and thousands, who went to the voting place on Nov. 3, were told they couldn’t vote, were told they couldn’t vote because a ballot had been put in on their name, and you know, that’s very very, very very sad. We had, um, I believe it’s about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren’t on the voter registration list. So it’s five thou — 4,502 — who voted, but they were not on the voter registration roll, which they had to be. You had 18,325 vacant address voters, they had no — the address was vacant, and they’re not allowed to be counted. That’s 18,325. Smaller number, you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O., a post office box number, and they had a post office box number, and that’s not allowed. We had at least 18,000, that’s on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly, 18,000 voters having to do with [name], she’s a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler, [name], that is, that was the tape that’s been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad. You, me and everybody else, where they got, No. 1, they said very clearly, and it’s been reported that they said there was a major water main break. Everybody fled the area, and then they came back, [name], her daughter and a few people. There was no Republican poll watchers, actually there were no Democrat poll watchers because they were them. But there were no Democrats either, and there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, they went, early in the morning, they went to the table with the black robe, the black shield, and they pulled out the votes. Those votes were put there a number of hours before. The table was put there. I think it was, Brad, you would know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and then it was stuffed with votes. They weren’t in an official voter box, they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks, suitcases. But they weren’t in voter boxes. The minimum number it could be because we watched it, and they watched it, certified in slow motion, instant replay, if you can believe it. But it had slow motion, and it was magnified many times over. And the minimum it was, was 18,000 ballots, all for Biden.
Um, you had out-of-state voters, they voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state of 4,925. You had absentee ballots sent to vacant, they were absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses. They had nothing on ’em about addresses. That’s 2,326. Um, and you had drop boxes, which was very bad. You had drop box boxes that were picked up. We have photographs, and we have affidavits from many people. I don’t know if you saw the hearings, but, but you have drop boxes, where the box was picked up and not delivered for three days. So all sorts of things could have happened to that box, including, you know, putting in the votes that you wanted. So there were many infractions, and the bottom line is many, many times the 11,779 margin that they said we lost by, we had vast, I mean you have, the state is in turmoil over this, and I know you would like to get to the bottom of it. Although I saw you on television today, and you said that you found nothing wrong, I mean you know, and I didn’t lose the state, Brad. People have, have been saying that it was the highest vote ever, there was no way, a lot of the, the political people said that there’s no way they beat me, and they beat me. They, they beat me in the — as you know, every single state, we won every state. We won every statehouse in the country. We held the Senate, which is shocking to people, although we’ll see what happens tomorrow or in a few days. And we won the House, but we won every single statehouse, and we won Congress, which was supposed to lose 15 seats, and they gained I think 16 or 17 or something. I think there’s now a difference of five. There was supposed to be a difference of substantially more. But politicians in every state, but politicians in Georgia, have given affidavits, and are going to — that, that there was no way they beat me in the — in the election, that the people came out — in fact, they were expecting to lose. And then, they ended up winning by a lot because of the coattails, and they said there’s no way, that they’ve done many polls prior to the election. There was no way that they won. Ballots were dropped in massive numbers, and we’re trying to get to those numbers, and we will have them. They’ll take a period of time certified. But, but, but they’re massive numbers and far greater than the 11,779.
The other thing, dead people, so dead people voted. And I think the, the number is in the close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters. The bottom line is when you add it all up, and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake ballots. Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas, and this may or may not be true. This just came up this morning that they are burning their ballots, that they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment. They’re changing the equipment on the, on the Dominion machines. And, you know, that’s not legal. And they supposedly shred. And I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots. And that just came to us as a report today. And you know, it’s a, it’s a very sad situation.
But, but Brad, if you took the minimum numbers, we’re, we’re many, many times above the 11,779, and many of those numbers are certified or they will be certified, but they are certified, or those are numbers that are there that exist and that, that beat the margin, the margin of loss. It beat, they beat it, I mean by a lot. And people should be happy to have an accurate count instead of an election where there’s terrible, I mean, there’s turmoil in Georgia and other places. You’re not the only one. I mean, we have other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly.
And but this is, this is something that’s, you know, as an example, I think in, in Detroit, and I think there’s a section, a good section of your state, actually, which we’re not sure, so we’re not going to report it yet. But in Detroit, we had 100 — I think it was 139 percent of the people voted. That’s not too good. In Pennsylvania, they had well over 200,000 more votes than they had people voting. And that was, that doesn’t play too well, and the Legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely activist and angry. But I mean, there were other things also that were almost as bad as that. But, but they had, as an example in Michigan, a trem — tremendous number of dead people that voted. I think it was, I think, Mark, it was 18,000 or some unbelievably high number, much higher than you as you were, you were in the four to 5,000 category. And that was checked out laboriously by going through — versus — by going through the obituary columns in the newspapers.
So I guess with all of it being said, Brad, it’s the bottom line and provisional ballots again, you know, you’ll have to tell me about the provisional ballots, but we have a lot of people that were complaining that they weren’t able to vote because they were already voted for, and these are great people. And, you know, they were shell shocked. I don’t know if you call that provisional ballots. In some states, we had a lot of provisional ballot situations where people were given a provisional ballot because when they walked in on Nov. 3, they were already voting, voted for. So that’s it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win this state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily. And we’re, we’re getting, we have much of this is a very, you know, they’re certified, far more certified than we need. But we’re getting additional numbers certified too, and we’re getting pictures of drop boxes being delivered and delivered late, and delivered three days later in some cases. Plus, we have many affidavits to that effect.
MARK MEADOWS, White House chief of staff: So, Mr. President, if I, if I might be able to jump in, and I’ll give Brad a chance. Mr. Secretary, one, obviously, there is, there are allegations where we believe that not every vote or fair vote and legal vote was, was counted. And that’s at odds with the representation from the secretary of state’s office. What I’m hopeful for is there are some way that we can, we can find some kind of agreement to, to, to look at this a little bit more fully. As you know, the president mentioned Fulton County, but in some of these areas where there seems to be a difference of where the facts seem to lead. And so, Mr. Secretary, I was hopeful that, you know, in a spirit of cooperation and compromise, is there, there’s something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of these allegations to find a path forward that’s less litigious.
RAFFENSPERGER: Well, I’ve listened to what the president has just said. President Trump, we’ve had several lawsuits, and we’ve had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions of — we don’t agree that you have one. We don’t, I didn’t agree about the 200,000 number that you mentioned. And I go through that point by point. What we had done is we gave our State Senate about one and a half hours of, of our time going through the election issue by issue. And then on the State House, the Government Affairs Committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point on all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S. congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time talking about this past election. Going back primarily what you’re, what you’ve talked about here, focused in on primarily, I believe it’s the absentee ballot process, I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines because we did a hand re-tally, a 1 percent re-tally of all the ballots and compared that to what the machine said. And it came up with virtually the same result. Then we did the recount. We’ve got virtually the same result. So I, I guess we could probably take that off the table. I don’t think there’s an issue about that. I think what you were —
TRUMP: Well, Brad, Brad, not that there’s not an issue, but because we have a big issue with Dominion and other states and perhaps in yours. But we have, we haven’t felt we needed to go there, and just to, you know, maybe put a little different spin on what Mark is saying. Mark Meadows. Yeah, I would like to go further, but we don’t really need to. We have all the votes we need. You know, we won the state. If you took, these are the most minimal numbers, the numbers that I gave you. Those are numbers that are certified, your absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses, your, your out-of-state voters, 4,925.
You know, when you add them up, it’s many more times, it’s many times the 11,779 number. So we could go through. We have not gone through your Dominion, so we can’t give them blessing. I mean, in other states we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we’ll have to see. But, but we, we only lost the state by 11 thous — by, by that number, 11,000 votes and 779. So with that being said, with just what we have. And, you know, with just what we have, we’re giving you minimum, minimum numbers, we’re doing the most conservative numbers possible. We’re many times, many, many times above the, the margin. And so we don’t really have to, Mark — I don’t think we have to go through the machines because, because what’s the difference between winning the election by two, two votes and winning it by half a million votes? I think I probably did win it by half a mill — I mean, you know, one of the things that happened, Brad, is we have other people coming in now from Alabama and from South Carolina and from other states, and they’re saying, ‘It’s impossible for you to have lost Georgia.’ We won. You know, in Alabama, we set a record, got the highest vote ever. In Georgia, we set a record with a massive amount of votes. And they say, ‘It’s not possible to have lost Georgia.’
And I could tell you by our rallies, I could tell you by the rally I’m having on Monday night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It’s just not possible to have lost Georgia. It’s not possible. When I heard it was close, I said there’s no way. But they dropped a lot of votes in there late at night, you know that, Brad. And that’s what we are working on very, very stringently. But regardless of those votes, with all of it being said, we lost by 11 to — essentially 11,000 votes. And we have many more votes already calculated and certified too. So I just don’t know. You know, Mark, I don’t know what’s the purpose. I won’t give Dominion a pass because we’ve found too many bad things. But we don’t need Dominion or anything else. We have, we have, we have won this election in Georgia based on all of this. And there’s, there’s nothing wrong with saying that, Brad. You know, I mean, having the, having a correct. The people of Georgia are angry, and these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night, along with others that we’re going to have by that time, which are much more substantial even, and the people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated because the 2,236 and absentee ballots, I mean, they’re all exact numbers that were, were done by accounting firms, law firms, etc. And even if you cut ’em in half, cut ’em in half and cut ’em in half again, it’s more votes than we need.
RAFFENSPERGER: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. We, we talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised. But they — I guess, there’s a person named Mr. Brainard that came to these meetings and presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so, that’s wrong, that was two.
TRUMP: Well, Cleta, how do you respond to that? I mean, you tell me.
CLETA MITCHELL, Trump lawyer: I will say Mr. Secretary, one of the things that we have requested, and we did — What we said was, and if you look at, if you read our petition, it said that we took the names and birth years and, you know, we had certain information available to us. We have asked from your office for records that only you have. And so we said there’s a universe of people who have the same name and same birth year and died. But we don’t have the records that you have, and one of the things that we have been suggesting formally and informally for weeks now is to try, is for you to make available to us the records that would be necessary to confirm —
TRUMP: But, but Cleta, even before you do that — Cleta, even before you do that, and not even including that, that’s why I hardly even included that number, although in one state we have a tremendous amount of dead people, so I don’t know. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too. I’m sure we do in Georgia, too. But is that we’re so far ahead, we’re so far ahead of these numbers. Even the phony ballots of, of [name], known scammer, you know, the internet, you know what was trending on the internet? Where’s [name]? Because they thought she’d be in jail. Where’s [name]? It’s, it’s crazy. It’s crazy. That was the minimum number is 18,000 for [name], but they think it’s probably about 56,000. But the minimum number is 18,000 on the [name] night where she ran back in there when everybody was gone and stuffed, she stuffed the ballot boxes. Let’s face it, Brad. I mean, they did it in slow motion replay, magnified. Right? She stuffed the ballot boxes. They were stuffed like nobody’s ever seen them stuffed before. So there’s a term for it when it’s a machine instead of a ballot box. But she stopped the machine. She stopped the ballot. Each, each ballot went three times. They were showing. Here’s ballot No. 1 here. Here it is a second time, third time, next ballot. I mean, look, Brad, this is, we have a new tape that we’re going to release. It’s devastating. And by the way, that one event, that one event is much more than the 11,000 votes that we’re talking about. It’s, you know, that one event was a, a disaster.
It’s, it’s just, you know, but it was, it was something that, it can’t be disputed. And again, we have a version that you haven’t seen, but it’s, it’s, it’s magnified. It’s magnified. And you can see everything. And she put for some reason, they put it in three times, each ballot. And I don’t know why, but you know why, I don’t know why, three times. Why not five times. Right? But yeah, go ahead.
RAFFENSPERGER: You’re talking about the State Farm video. And I think it’s extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context. So the next day, we brought in WSB-TV, and we let them show, see the full run of tape, and what you’ll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was, what was projected by, you know —
TRUMP: But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there. There were no Democrats or Republicans. There was no security there.
It was late in the evening, late in the, early in the morning, and there was nobody else in the room. Where were the poll watchers, and why did they say a water main broke, which they did, and which is reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a water main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break. There was no water main break. But we’re, if you take out everything, where were the Republican poll watchers, even where were the Democrat poll watchers, because there were none.
And then you say, well, they left their station, you know, if you look at the tape, and this was, this was reviewed by professional police and detectives and other people, when they left in a rush, everybody left in a rush because of the water main, but everybody left in a rush. These people left their station.
When they came back, they didn’t go to their station. They went to the apron, wrapped around the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an official or a sealed box. And then they took those, and they went back to a different station. So if they would have come back, they would have walked to their station, and they would have continued to work. But they couldn’t do even that because that’s illegal, because they had no Republican poll watchers. And remember, her reputation is — she’s known all over the internet, Brad. She’s known all over.
I’m telling you, ‘Where’s [name]?’ was one of the hot items. [Name], they knew her. ‘Where’s [name]?’ So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was — and Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ’em in three times.
RAFFENSPERGER: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
TRUMP: Well, where was everybody else at that late time in the morning? Where was everybody? Where were the Republicans? Where were the security guards? Where were the people that were there just a little while before when everyone ran out of the room? How come we had no security in the room? Why did they run to the bottom of the table? Why do they run there and just open the skirt and rip out the votes. I mean, Brad. And they were sitting there, I think for five hours or something like that, the votes. But they just all happened to run back and go, you know, Brad …
RAFFENSPERGER: Mr. President, we’ll send you the link from WSB.
TRUMP: I don’t care about the link. I don’t need it. Brad, I have a much better link.
MITCHELL: I will tell you. I’ve seen the tape. The full tape. So has Alex. We’ve watched it. And what we saw and what we’ve confirmed in the timing is that they made everybody leave. We have sworn affidavits saying that. And then they began to process ballots. And our estimate is that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don’t know that. If you know that …
TRUMP: It was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.
MITCHELL: Well, I don’t know about that.
TRUMP: Well, I do because we have it, we had ours magnified out.
MITCHELL: I’ve watched the entire tape.
TRUMP: But nobody can make a case for that, Brad. Nobody. I mean, look, that’s, you’d have to be a child to think anything other than that. Just a child.
MITCHELL: How many ballots, Mr. Secretary, are you saying were processed then?
RAFFENSPERGER: We had G.B.I. thoroughly investigate that.
RYAN GERMANY, chief lawyer, Georgia secretary of state’s office: We had our — this is Ryan Germany. We had our law enforcement officers talk to everyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. G.B.I. was with them as well as F.B.I. agents.
TRUMP: Well, there’s no way they could — then they’re incompetent. They’re either dishonest or incompetent, OK?
MITCHELL: Well, what did they find?
TRUMP: There’s only two answers, dishonesty or incompetence. There’s just no way. Look. There’s no way. And on the other thing, I said too, there’s no way. I mean, there’s no way that these things could have been, you know, you have all these different people that, that voted but they don’t live in Georgia anymore. What was that number, Cleta? That was a pretty good number, too.
MITCHELL: The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And so they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state. And then it’s like 4,500, I don’t have that number right in front of me.
TRUMP: And then they came back in, and they voted.
MITCHELL: And voted. Yeah.
TRUMP: I thought that was a large number, though. It was in the 20s. And, uh, the point is —
GERMANY: We’ve been going through each of those as well, and those numbers that, that we got that Ms. Mitchell was just saying, they’re not accurate. Every one we’ve been through, are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately. And in many cases —
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TRUMP: How may people do that? They moved out, and then they said, ‘Ah, to hell with it, I’ll move back.’ You know, it doesn’t sound like a very normal — you mean, they moved out, and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It’s crazy.
GERMANY: This is they moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election. So there’s something about that data that, it’s just not accurate.
TRUMP: Well, I don’t know, all I know is that it is, it is certified. And they moved out of Georgia, and they voted. It didn’t say they moved back in, Cleta, did it?
MITCHELL: No, but I mean, we’re looking at the voter registration. Again, if you have additional records, we’ve been asking for that, but you haven’t shared any of that with us. You just keep saying you investigated the allegations.
TRUMP: Cleta, a lot of it you don’t need to be shared. I mean, to be honest, they should share. They should share it because you want to get to an honest election.
I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. I’m just going by small numbers when you add them up, they’re many times the 11,000. But, but I won that state by hundreds of thousands of votes.
Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery.
Do you know anything about that? Because that’s illegal, right?
GERMANY: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.
TRUMP: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?
GERMANY: No.
TRUMP: Are you sure, Ryan?
GERMANY: I’m sure. I’m sure, Mr. President.
TRUMP: What about, what about the, what about the ballots. The shredding of the ballots. Have they been shredding ballots?
GERMANY: The only investigation that we have into that — they have not been shredding any ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding, getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that. But this stuff from, you know, from, you know, past elections.
TRUMP: It doesn’t pass the smell test, because we hear they’re shredding thousands and thousands of ballots, and now what they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’re just cleaning up the office.’ Yeah.
RAFFENSPERGER: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they — people can say anything.
TRUMP: Oh, this isn’t social media. This is Trump media. It’s not social media. It’s really not, it’s not social media. I don’t care about social media. I couldn’t care less. Social media is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don’t even know why you have a side, because you should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican.
RAFFENSPERGER: We believe that we do have an accurate election.
TRUMP: No, no you don’t. No, no you don’t. You don’t have, you don’t have. Not even close. You’re off by hundreds of thousands of votes. And just on the small numbers, you’re off on these numbers, and these numbers can’t be just — well, why won’t? — OK. So you sent us into Cobb County for signature verification, right? You sent us into Cobb County, which we didn’t want to go into. And you said it would be open to the public, and we could have our, so had our experts there. They weren’t allowed into the room. But we didn’t want Cobb County. We wanted Fulton County. And you wouldn’t give it to us. Now, why aren’t we doing signature — and why can’t it be open to the public?
And why can’t we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find anything and don’t want to find anything? They don’t want to find, you know, they don’t want to find anything. Someday you’ll tell me the reason why, because I don’t understand your reasoning, but someday you’ll tell me the reason why. But why don’t you want to find?
GERMANY: Mr. President, we chose Cobb County —
TRUMP: Why don’t you want to find — What?
GERMANY: Sorry, go ahead.
TRUMP: So why did you do Cobb County? We didn’t even request — we requested Fulton County, not Cobb County. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.
GERMANY: We chose Cobb County because that was the only county where there’s been any evidence submitted that the signature verification was not properly done.
TRUMP: No, but I told you. But we’re not, we’re not saying that. We’re the aggrieved party.
MITCHELL: We did say that.
TRUMP: Fulton County. Look. Stacey, in my opinion, Stacey is as dishonest as they come. She has outplayed you … at everything. She got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. You can’t check signatures. I can’t imagine you’re allowed to do harvesting, I guess, in that agreement. That agreement is a disaster for this country. But she got you somehow to sign that thing, and she has outsmarted you at every step.
And I hate to imagine what’s going to happen on Monday or Tuesday, but it’s very scary to people. You know, when the ballots flow in out of nowhere. It’s very scary to people. That consent decree is a disaster. It’s a disaster. A very good lawyer who examined it said they’ve never seen anything like it.
RAFFENSPERGER: Harvesting is still illegal in the state of Georgia. And that settlement agreement did not change that one iota.
TRUMP: It’s not a settlement agreement, it’s a consent decree. It even says consent decree on it, doesn’t it? It uses the term consent decree. It doesn’t say settlement agreement. It’s a consent decree. It’s a disaster.
RAFFENSPERGER: It’s a settlement agreement.
TRUMP: What’s written on top of it?
RAFFENSPERGER: Ryan?
GERMANY: I don’t have it in front of me, but it was not entered by the court, it’s not a court order.
TRUMP: But Ryan, it’s called a consent decree, is that right? On the paper. Is that right?
GERMANY: I don’t, I don’t, I don’t believe so, but I don’t have it in front of me.
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