Ainakin vakavasti selvittävät, onko mahdollista käynnistää rikosprosessi. Tuskin tämä ainoaksi tapaukseksi jää, saa nähdä, mitä vielä on tulossa.
Mielenkiintoista myös tuo fakta, että saman lakifirman edustaja, joka on edustanut Trumppia noissa perusteettomissa vaalivilppiä koskevissa jutuissa on nyt ollut mukana tuossa Trumpin painostuspuhelussa!
“Our advice is always don’t try to make up or steal votes,” Ben Ginsberg, a longtime election lawyer for Republicans and CNN contributor, said on Monday.
Politically, what Trump said “is beyond the pale, beyond norms, beyond common decency, if not beyond the law.”
Because Raffensperger, an elected Republican, clearly refused what Trump was suggesting he do, Ginsberg said, that may set the situation up for Trump to face heavier political fallout.
“The political damage will be far greater than any legal damage since he’s leaving office in 16 days,” and investigations take time. “You’ll know the answer Tuesday night in Georgia and Wednesday in the votes on the Electoral College,” Ginsberg added.
And while Trump may not face legal jeopardy, lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who participated on the President’s behalf on the call, already is under scrutiny for her role in the call.
The large national law firm affiliated with Mitchell distanced itself from her – an indication that Trump’s request was abhorrent even in the usually reticent and politically tolerant legal industry.
“Our policy did allow our attorneys to participate in observing election recounts and similar actions on a voluntary basis in their individual capacity as private citizens so long as they did not act as legal advisers. We are aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 conference call and are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly,” Dan Farrell, a spokesman for the law firm Foley & Lardner, Mitchell, who’s long pushed unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in elections, is a partner.