AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes
Associated PressPresident Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fabricating a slew of votes that he said should’ve been counted in his favor. In the hourlong conversation Saturday with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, Trump suggested that the Republican “find” enough votes to hand Trump the victory. There’s something about that data that it’s just not accurate.” ___ 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.’” THE FACTS: The shredding in question was taking place in suburban Cobb County, not in Fulton County as Trump claimed. ___ TRUMP, claiming that a Fulton County election worker fed ballots through a machine three times instead of only once, saying his campaign would release a video proving it: “It can’t be disputed. ___ TRUMP: “In other states we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we’ll have to see.” THE FACTS: No “tremendous corruption” has been found.