{"id":280398,"date":"2021-03-22T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=280398"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:00:39","slug":"georgia-gop-calls-for-investigation-into-top-state-officials-over-leak-of-fraudulent-trump-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-gop-calls-for-investigation-into-top-state-officials-over-leak-of-fraudulent-trump-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia GOP Calls For Investigation Into Top State Officials Over Leak Of Fraudulent Trump Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-gop-calls-for-investigation-into-top-state-officials-over-leak-of-fraudulent-trump-quotes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=280398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2611.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Georgia Republican Party is calling for an investigation into top officials in the secretary of state\u2019s office after numerous reports were found to have attributed fraudulent quotes to former President Donald Trump in a December phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The State Executive Committee of the Georgia GOP passed a resolution last week calling for an investigation into Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, Secretary of State chief investigator Frances Watson, and others over the scandal. The party announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/gagop.org\/2021\/03\/19\/georgia-republicans-call-on-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger-to-act-on-false-reporting\/\">resolution<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Executive Committee of the Georgia Republican Party hereby calls on the Office of the Inspector General of State of Georgia and the appropriate legislative committees of the Georgia General Assembly to investigate the governmental personnel involved in the\u201d recording, leaking, and attempted destruction of a Dec. 23 phone call between Trump and Watson, the resolution says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Executive Committee of the Georgia Republican Party hereby calls on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to issue a statement repudiating the reported aforementioned misrepresentation and attempted destruction of evidence and to relieve from power those engaged in this conduct no later than March 24, 2021,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous news outlets attributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\">fraudulent quotes<\/a> to Trump based off anonymous sourcing familiar with the Dec. 23 phone call. Outlets claimed that Trump had ordered Watson to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d and said the investigator would be a \u201cnational hero\u201d once she did so. Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/audio-that-debunked-fraudulent-trump-quotes-found-on-ga-state-government-device-report\">recovered<\/a> a recording of the phone call through an open records request last week. The recording was found in the electronic trash folder on a device used by Watson.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, the first outlet to misreport the call, posted a lengthy correction to its story after the recording became public. The Post also outed the anonymous source that described the phone call to the Post in January and supplied the outlet with the fraudulent Trump quotes: Deputy Secretary of State Fuchs.<\/p>\n<p>Fuchs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-outs-source-who-gave-them-fake-quotes-from-trump-georgia-phone-call-source-defends-herself\">defended<\/a> her actions in a statement to the Post\u2019s media critic Eric Wemple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the story accurately reflected the investigator\u2019s interpretation of the call. The only mistake here was in the direct quotes, and they should have been more of a summary,\u201d Fuchs said. \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty absurd for anybody to suggest that the president wasn\u2019t urging the investigator to \u2018find the fraud.\u2019 These are quotes that [Watson] told me at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recording showed that neither of the quotes attributed to Trump in Dec. 23 phone call were said by the then-president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won everything but Georgia, and I won Georgia, I know that, by a lot, and the people know it, and something happened there, something bad happened,\u201d Trump actually said on the call. \u201cI hope you go back two years as opposed to just checking one against the other because that would just be sort of a signature check that doesn\u2019t mean anything. But if you go back two years, and if you can get to [Fulton County], you are going to find things that are unbelievable. The dishonesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watson answered: \u201cI can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts. We\u2019ve been working 12-16 hour days and, you know, we\u2019re working through it. So I can assure you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the call, Trump told Watson that \u201cwhen the right answer comes out, you\u2019ll be praised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-made-up-quotes-wapo-ripped-for-reporting-fraudulent-trump-quotes-on-call-with-ga-investigator\">\u2018They Made Up Quotes\u2019: WaPo Ripped For Reporting Fraudulent Trump Quotes On Call With GA Investigator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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