"We gave them all the information that they requested at no cost to them. Raffensperger told Newsweek earlier this month that he hadn't been asked to testify yet but that his office would cooperate with Willis' investigation. Above, Trump walks to the White House residence after exiting Marine One on the South Lawn on July 15, 2020, in Washington, D.C. "I think the charges will stick," legal expert Laurence Tribe said about a potential indictment against former President Donald Trump. "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state," Trump is heard saying in the leaked call. Trump lost the state by a narrow margin of 0.23 points.Īs part of her probe, Willis, a Democrat, has reportedly subpoenaed a number of state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who recently won a GOP primary in a rebuke of Trump's election fraud claims.Ī phone recording obtained by The Washington Post revealed that Trump had asked Raffensperger to help him "find 11,780 votes" to overturn President Joe Biden's win in Georgia and threatened Raffensperger with "a criminal offense" for refusing to assist his efforts. Tribe's remarks came as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis ramps up her investigation into Trump's alleged efforts to overturn Georgia's vote in the 2020 presidential election. And I think the charges will stick," Laurence Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University, tweeted on Friday. "It wouldn't surprise me for Georgia to become the first jurisdiction to indict a former president on felony charges. A legal expert is predicting that potential felony charges against former President Donald Trump are likely to have standing in Georgia, and indictments may continue past the Peach State.
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