Peach Tree Times

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger suggested that his office leaked a phone call with President Donald Trump to the media after Trump tweeted about the call.

When Raffensperger was asked about whether or not the phone call would have been leaked if Trump hadn’t tweeted about it, Raffensperger told WXIA that Trump had broken privacy by tweeting about it and that he had tweeted false information. 

“If President Trump hadn’t have tweeted out anything and would’ve stayed silent, we would’ve stayed silent as well,” Raffensperger said. “And that would’ve just been a conversation between him and I, man to man, and that would’ve been just fine with us. But he’s the one that had to put it out on Twitter.”

Raffensperger said that the information was already out there when he was asked by Fox News’ Martha MacCallum about the call.

“It is what it is,” he said to Fox News.

When MacCallum had asked Raffensperger if he had agreed to release the call, he said they had to respond in some way to Trump’s tweet.

"I think we had to respond to the president’s Twitter, and we responded with the facts that were in the call,” Raffensperger told Fox News. “So that’s how it got out there. The world can make up their own decisions, listen to the both sides. Both sides of the aisle, down the middle. Make their own decisions."

After Trump tweeted about the call Sunday night, Raffensperger responded saying that the truth would come out.

The conversation between Trump and Raffensperger regarded two lawsuits that Trump’s team had filed that they were looking to settle.