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The Byron York Show

The Brad Raffensperger Problem

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's possible to have two entirely different but entirely compatible reactions to accounts of President Trump's Saturday phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. First, the president clearly tried to press Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to flip Georgia from Biden to Trump. Even though Trump obviously believes the phantom votes are rightfully […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York show, the No Chit Chat Podcast. We'd like to get right into it

0:16.1

and what we're going to get right into today is the question of Georgia Secretary of State

0:22.0

Brad Raffinsberger.

0:24.6

Now, it's possible to have two entirely different,

0:29.7

but also two entirely compatible reactions to the accounts of President Trump's phone call on

0:37.1

Saturday with Raffinsburg.

0:40.5

Now first, the President clearly tried to press Raffinsberger to quote find enough

0:46.8

votes to flip Georgia from Biden to Trump. Even though Trump obviously believes the phantom votes, wherever they are, are rightfully

0:57.0

his, he stepped over the line of propriety, actually way over the line of propriety by trying to push Georgia election officials to change the result.

1:08.0

Now, I think that goes almost without saying but we just said it.

1:14.0

Now at the same time in the last 24 hours or so,

1:18.0

Raffensberger has been asked about the circumstances of the leak of the recording of his

1:28.0

conversation, phone conversation with the president. And Raffinsberger has

1:32.2

given shifty and evasive

1:34.9

answers to very basic questions about this decision to make the

1:39.8

conversation with the president public.

1:43.0

Which has led to the question of what was he trying to accomplish with this revelation,

1:48.0

which just happened to come, by the way, in the hours before the Georgia Senate race.

1:57.0

Raffensburg appears to have acted more from personal motivations than from a desire to expose the president's misconduct.

2:06.4

That's what it appears.

2:07.9

Okay.

2:08.9

The reason I'm saying that is because of Revensberger's answers during an interview on Fox with Martha McCallum on

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