Former President Donald Trump insisted his controversial January 2021 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was “perfect” and baselessly called the 2020 presidential election “stolen and rigged” in a series of Truth Social posts on Tuesday, ahead of a court hearing to determine if a special grand jury’s report detailing whether Trump and his allies unlawfully interfered in the 2020 election should be made public.
Repeating a frequent claim, Trump said his January 2021 call with Raffensperger—in which Trump urged him to “find” enough votes to make him the winner in Georgia—was a “PERFECT call protesting the Rigged Georgia Election,” he wrote.
Trump also made the unfounded claim that Georgia election officials “cheated in many ways including STUFFING Ballots, ALL CAUGHT LIVE ON TAPE,” he wrote Tuesday.
The defensive posts come as Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney is set to hold a hearing Tuesday to decide if an Atlanta-area grand jury’s report should be released, following a months-long investigation into Trump’s attempts to reverse President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.
Trump’s attorneys told NBC News they “will not be present nor participating” in the hearing, but did not contest the report’s release. “We can assume that the grand jury did their job and looked at the facts and the law, as we have, and concluded there were no violations of the law by President Trump,” they said.
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