Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday sought to justify the propriety of a phone call he made to Georgia election officials, an action that is now part of criminal probe into the then-president’s actions in the state.
Early last month, Trump called the Georgia secretary of state and pressured him to “find” enough ballots to push Trump to victory there. Trump lost the state narrowly.
Democratic impeachment managers have pointed to the Georgia phone call and Trump’s broader efforts to overturn the election as part of the circumstances that led to the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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