Authorities located the December recording of Trump’s call in a trash folder on the Georgia investigator’s device

Authorities located the December recording of Trump’s call in a trash folder on the Georgia investigator’s device

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The audio file of the December 23 call between the former president and investigator Frances Watson was discovered when the Georgia Secretary of State responded to a public registration request. The relative spoke with CNN on condition of anonymity to describe the internal process.

The Washington Post first reported the details of how the audio from the December phone call came about.
CNN previously reported that in the December phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, Trump urged his top investigator, Watson, to find fraud in the 2020 presidential election, saying she would be “praised” for nullifying the results in favor of President Joe Biden.

State officials had previously told CNN that they did not think there was an audio of Trump’s call to Watson in December.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sent a series of letters to Georgia state officials in February, including the office of Georgia’s secretary of state, asking them to preserve documents relevant to electoral interference. Willis is currently conducting a criminal investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The secretary of state’s office is also separately investigating Trump for his attempts to overturn the state’s election results.

The audio of an hour-long phone call on January 2 in which Trump repeatedly pressured Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the exact number of votes needed to overturn Biden’s victory came to light shortly after the call. But the December call only went public last week.

Watson told investigative reporter Mark Winne of CNN’s WSB-TV affiliate that she had recorded Trump’s call to posterity in December.

“It’s not every day, this will probably never happen again in my life,” Watson told the WSB.

It is still unclear why Watson moved the call’s audio to his trash folder, but Watson told Winne that although she was surprised, Trump called her, she didn’t notice any pressure from her phone call.

“It is something that was not expected, as I mentioned in the call, you know I was shocked that he took the trouble to do that,” said Watson.

Trump, in the December call, encouraged Watson to seek to discover “dishonesty” in his signed checks for absentee votes in Fulton County, the state’s most populous county and home to most of Atlanta.

“But if you go back two years and you can get to Fulton, you will find things that will be unbelievable,” said the former president. “The dishonesty we hear about. But Fulton is the main lode.”

Later in the call, Trump told Watson that he hoped “we” could win Georgia and that “you have the most important job in the country right now.”

The report added to the examples of Trump’s extraordinary efforts to promote false allegations of widespread electoral fraud and influence Georgia’s election officials while certifying the state’s election results.

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