"I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines. Because we did a hand re-tally, a 100 percent re-tally of all the ballots, and compared them to what the machines said and came up with virtually the same result."

GA SecState Brad Raffensperger
Raffensperger refuses to give even an inch to Trump's wild and false claims of widespread voter fraud.

"Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they — people can say anything."

"Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong."
At one point Raffensperger stands up to another Trump lie, and it becomes clear Trump is just repeating random conspiracy theories people he knows have told him.
Mark Meadows and Trump repeatedly pressure Raffensperger to make "some kind of agreement" to "investigate further," clearly an effort to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Georgia's results.

Raffensperger repeatedly refuses to humor these inappropriate requests.
Here Trump presents his evidence that the Georgia vote is fraudulent: how could Trump lose when his supporters were sure he was going to win?
"You know the Internet? You know what was trending on the Internet?"

We really should be giving The Internet a Medal of Freedom for its hard work as Trump's most loyal advisor.
At one point you hear Raffensperger getting kind of sick of this Internet conspiracy video conversation. He reminds Trump that, you know, none of that is actually real.
Raffensperger brings in some backup to point out that not only Georgia police but also the FBI investigated allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and found...nothing.

Trump's psyche is unable to accept that reality, so it goes on the attack.
Trump absolutely refuses to believe the Dominion voting machine conspiracy is just a conspiracy, despite Georgia's election officials straight up telling Trump it's a conspiracy.
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