Trump's final mad descent
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They are a shredding ballots in my opinion based on what I've heard and they are removing |
| 0:08.0 | machinery and they're moving it as fast as they can. |
| 0:12.9 | Both of which are criminal fines and you can't let it happen and you are letting it happen. |
| 0:17.1 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:18.1 | I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen. |
| 0:21.0 | So look, all I want to do is this. |
| 0:23.8 | I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more that we have because we won the state. |
| 0:36.6 | That was President Trump on Saturday trying to pressure Georgia, Secretary of State, Brad |
| 0:41.1 | Raffensberger to find him the votes to help overturn the results of the presidential election. |
| 0:47.5 | The phone call, secretly taped by Raffensberger's office and then leaked to the news media, may |
| 0:52.3 | stand as the ultimate capstone to Trump's presidency, a bizarre hour-long rant in which |
| 0:58.2 | the country's chief executive repeated baseless conspiracy theories about dead voters and |
| 1:03.1 | shredded ballots. |
| 1:04.7 | At some points trying to cajole Georgia's chief election official to unearth votes that |
| 1:09.2 | don't exist and at other times threatening Raffensberger with criminal consequences if |
| 1:14.8 | he didn't do so. |
| 1:16.4 | It was, as one long time White House adviser put it, the ultimate example of Trump's |
| 1:21.1 | dissent into, quote, mad King George Lunacy. |
| 1:25.2 | We'll tell the backstory of the Trump Raffensberger phone call with one of the reporters who broke |
| 1:29.6 | the story and then we'll talk to Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, one of |
| 1:34.7 | the few in the GOP who has spoken out against the president about why he's genuinely worried |
| 1:40.1 | about the prospect of violence at the Capitol when Congress tallies the Electoral College |
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