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by cozuya 1909 days ago
What in the world? The former guy said, on a real, not fake recording "I just want to find 11,780 votes". This has not been retracted. Where are you reading this?
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They misquoted him and attributed malice to quotes that did not exist. Two months later they posted a correction that they were wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/16/washingto...
Perfect example! The media took the GA official at his word, ran with the story, 2 months later the recording come up and most of it was made up.

If that doesn’t tell you what the media is about I don’t what is. They literally ran with a story about the president they couldn’t corroborate and it turned out to be lies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-call-georgia-i...

"CORRECTION: [...] Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so."

That's a pretty whopping correction that changes the entire story. If he's asking her to investigate the votes to find wrongdoing, then there's absolutely no wrongdoing.