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Trump's "find 11,780 votes" call to Georgia played out loud at the Jack Smith hearing

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At the Jack Smith hearing, a lawmaker played audio of Donald Trump's phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State about the 2020 election. On the tape, the Secretary of State tells Trump "the data you have is wrong." Trump replies: "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state."

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Who
Donald Trump
Where
hearing - House Judiciary Committee, Jack Smith testimony
Original footage
Project America | News · watch the full video from this moment
Length
40 seconds, unedited within the cut
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I have an audio from a phone call between Trump and the Georgia Secretary of State regarding the 2020 election. Could you please play the audio? You're angry. The people of the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. So look, all I want to do is this. I just want to find 11 ,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state. Mr.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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