Amidst all of the other crazy things he said at Wednesday evening’s CNN town hall, failed former president Donald Trump also gave Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis new evidence she can use against the ex-president as she considers whether or not to indict him for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Legal analyst and Brookings Governance senior fellow Norm Eisen was a guest on CNN’s “News Central” Friday, and he told host host Jim Scuitto that Trump provided proof of his “criminal intent.”
During the town hall, moderator Kaitlan Collins asked Trump, “Given the fact that there are indictments expected to come in that case this summer — is that a call you would make again today?”
The indicted former president replied, “Yeah, I called questioning the election. I thought it was a rigged election. I thought it had a lot of problems. Listen to this: There are like seven lawyers on the call…we’re having a normal call, nobody said, ‘Oh, gee, he shouldn’t have said that.'”
Collins fact-checked Trump, noting, “You asked him to find the votes.”
That led Trump to begin shouting: “I didn’t ask him to find anything! I said you owe me votes because the election was rigged!”
Eisen was asked by Sciutto, “Tell me how that impacts the investigation in Georgia.”
The attorney and ethics expert replied, “It’s the most important kind of proof for a prosecutor, Jim. Intent proof. Whatever he believed, once the election had been certified, he can’t demand that the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger just find 11,780 votes. It’s vigilante justice. Think of it this way: If I believed the bank owed me $11, 780, and I went in there and threatened the teller, ‘Give me my $11,780’ — even if I believe it belongs to me — you can’t do that, and you can’t do that in an election.”
Sciutto: “You can’t say ‘You owe me that money;’ you can’t say, ‘You owe me those votes.'”
Willis is expected to announce whether she will indict Trump sometime this summer.
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