CNN’s Pamela Brown on Monday didn’t let Donald Trump’s lawyers go as they defended the former president’s pressure on Georgia officials to increase the number of 2020 votes for him. (See the video below.)
The Fulton County district attorney is investigating Trump’s efforts to reverse his election loss in the swing state.
Brown played a quote from Trump’s phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he said: “All I want is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is more than one, because we won the state.
“Are you concerned that the facts of this case are not favorable to your client, given what you just heard and the other phone call?” Brown asked Drew Findling, a lawyer representing Trump in a case that could lead to charges of racketeering and other offenses. Trump also said he expects to be indicted in Manhattan over the Stormy Daniels money allegations.
“So, I’m worried that people will only listen for eight or nine seconds and not see the evidence,” Findling replied. “So we looked at minute 62. We looked at all the evidence. And looking at all the evidence, we know and understand that our client did not break any laws.
Brown reiterated that he reviewed all of the tapes and noted that Trump cited “some of the conspiracy theories that have been debunked to support his goal that he wants Raffensperger to overturn the election.”
“How is this okay?” Brown is stressed.
“So what I’m going to tell you, Pamela, I’m not going to try the case with you or anyone else on TV or the media,” the lawyer replied. “I mean, that’s what you do in court.”
Findling said he only wanted to discuss a motion filed by his legal team that declared the Fulton County grand jury investigating the case “unconstitutional.” He then went off on a tangent about a jail crowded with suspects awaiting trial.