The lawyer with President Donald Trump when he pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the state’s election results joined the call despite her firm’s decision not to get involved in election litigation, the firm said.
Foley & Lardner is “working to understand more thoroughly” Cleta Mitchell’s role in the Jan. 2 conference call, spokesman Dan Farrell told Bloomberg Law.
During the call, Trump pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to tip the state’s results in his favor. Raffensperger repeatedly declined the president’s requests, responding that the count narrowly favoring President-elect Joe Biden was accurate. ...
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