In what may wind up being the Freudian slip of the year, failed one-term, twice-impeached, and multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump told supporters at a Sunday campaign rally in Reno, Nevada that “you can do a lot with a telephone.”
As HuffPost explains, Trump has indeed done a lot with phones over the years, and many of those got him into very hot water.
Among Trump’s famous presidential phone conversations was a 2019 call to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump was impeached over that call, during which he suggested he would release military aid approved by Congress if the Ukrainian leader opened an investigation into Joe Biden, his likely rival for the presidency at the time.
Another famous call? Trump’s chat to Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, after the 2020 election, urging him to “find” the exact number of votes he needed to overturn his loss to Biden. Trump has been charged with more than a dozen felonies over his attempts to change Georgia’s election result.
Additionally, last week Special Counsel Jack Smith noted in a legal filing that he will be using Trump’s cell phone data as part of the trial against the ex-president for trying to overturn the 2020 election results.
After video of Trump’s Sunday comments hit social media, responses began pouring in, with many reminding Donald that phones are not exactly your friend when you’re criming.
