Case 1:23-cr-00257-TSC Document 226 Filed 08/27/24 Page 14 of 36 34. bcdef The defendant responded, “I don't care about a link, I don't need it. I have a much, [Georgia Secretary of State]I have a much better link.” The defendant asked about rumors that ballots forged within the election were being destroyed, and the legal counsel for the Georgia Secretary of State explained to him that this claim had been investigated and was not true. The defendant claimed that 5,000 dead people voted in Georgia, to which the Georgia Secretary of State responded, “Well, Mr. President, the challenge you have got is that the info you have got is improper. . . . The actual number was two. Two. Two dead individuals who voted. And so
[your information]is improper, that was two.” The defendant claimed that thousands of voters from other states had voted in the Georgia election, which the legal counsel for the Secretary of State of Georgia refuted with the statement: “We have also checked out each of those cases, and the numbers we now have received show that [Defendant’s counsel] i used to be just saying they aren’t accurate. All of those we went through are individuals who lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then legally returned to Georgia…they moved back years ago. This was not like something right before the election.” In response to several other claims made by the defendant, legal counsel for the Georgia Secretary of State informed the defendant that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was reviewing all such claims and found them to be without merit. The defendant said he had to “find” 11,780 votes and implied that the Georgia Secretary of State and his legal counsel could face criminal prosecution if they did not uncover voter fraud as he requested, stating, “And you’ll find that they — which is completely illegal — it’s, it’s, it’s more illegal for you than for them because you recognize what they did and also you don't report it. That is a criminal offense, you recognize, that could be a criminal offense. And you recognize, you can’t allow that to occur. That is a large risk to you and to [the Georgia Secretary of State’s Counsel]Your attorney.” The next day, January 3, the defendant falsely claimed that the Georgia Secretary of State had not answered the defendant's allegations, and publicly stated that the Georgia Secretary of State was “unwilling or unable to reply questions comparable to the 'under the table ballot' fraud, ballot destruction, 'voters' from other states, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!” – 14 –
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