Donald Trump made a "staggering" admission of wrongdoing with a seemingly throwaway comment made on the bombshell recording of a call in which he apparently pressures Michigan canvassers to not certify the results of the 2020 election, a CNN analyst said Friday.
Reporter Marshall Cohen highlighted a section of the recording, unearthed Thursday in a Detroit News report, in which Trump and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel are heard telling canvassers not to sign the certification of Michigan’s election result.
“McDaniel said, ‘Do not sign it,’ referring to the certification papers. ‘We will get you attorneys,”' Cohen reported.“Trump said, 'We will take care of that.’ Why do you need attorneys if you are not doing anything wrong? That's an incredibly staggering point.”
In the recording, Trump is heard personally pressuring two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to deny the result.
On the Nov. 17, 2020 call, on which Trump is joined by McDaniel, he tells canvassers Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, “We’ve got to fight for our country. We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”
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He went on to say that “Everyone knows Detroit is crooked as hell.”
Cohen called the call a massive piece of new evidence for special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is preparing to try Trump on federal election subversion charges.
“If he doesn't have it, he definitely wants to get it,” Cohen said. “It could be a huge piece of additional evidence.”
