Georgia official frantically texted Mark Meadows as Trump badgered secretary of state to 'find' votes
As
Donald Trump badgered
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on an hour-long call to
"find" the votes necessary to flip the battleground state to
Trump's column after the 2020 election, a
Raffensperger aide fired off a plea for help.
"Need to end this call," Jordan Fuchs, then the deputy secretary of state, said in a text message to then-
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
"I don't think this will be productive much longer."
She added:
"Let's save the relationship."
The little-noticed text messages, included in a recent court filing, provide a deeper look at the chaos that ensued as the former
President pressed Raffensperger to help prove
Trump won in
Georgia - a state
Trump lost. That call now stands at the center of an investigation into
Trump.
