Should Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis decide to indict Donald Trump for attempting to tamper with the 2020 presidential election results based upon his phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, one of the former president's attorneys is tipping off what strategy he might deploy to undercut the prosecution's case.
According to a report from Vice, attorney Drew Findling has an extensive background in getting hip-hop stars absolved in legal squabbles when their rap boasts are used against them in criminal cases.
The case against Trump that will be going to a grand jury will likely be centered on Trump's infamous call to the secretary of state on Jan 2, 2021 where he begged, "So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state."
According to Findling, Trump's words require "context" to understand what he was getting at.
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"Focusing on just a few lines from the call is misguided, Findling argues—for the same reason that prosecutors miss the mark when they rely on a few words that hip-hop artists use in their albums to support criminal indictments of rap stars," Vice's Greg Walters is reporting.
“Prosecutors, first of all, don't know the first thing about lyrics," Findling explained in an interview. "They'll take out eight or nine words. They'll take out something that lasts a few seconds and say, ‘Aha, this is evidence of some wrongdoing.’ In like fashion, no one ever talks about the full 62 minutes. No one ever talks about the surrounding circumstances of those 62 minutes.”
The report adds, "Findling declined to dive more deeply into the details of the Trump case," with Walters adding, "It remains to be seen whether Willis will agree with Findling’s view of the call, or treat it as evidence supporting a future indictment of the former president. Now that the special purpose grand jury has completed its report and made recommendations, Willis must decide whether to seek criminal charges from a regular grand jury. "
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