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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump defends ‘perfect’ Georgia phone call as prosecutor requests special grand jury

REUTERS

Donald Trump insists he “didn’t say anything wrong” on a phone call with Georgia’s top elections official in which the former president appeared to pressure him to “find” votes that would overturn Joe Biden’s definitive victory in the state.

After the chief prosecutor in Fulton County requested a special grand jury in her investigation into his election interference, the former president defended what he called a “perfect” phone call with Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and baselessly suggested that “tens of thousands of votes” were fraudulently cast in the state’s election.

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