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The list of legal woes for former President Donald Trump is growing, and a CNN legal analyst said he thinks a prosecution is “quite likely.”
In the fallout of the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Trump and his legal team toed legal lines and possibly stepped over them in an attempt to hold on to power. After the first public hearing of the Jan. 6 committee last week, the case against the former president continues to grow, said Norm Eisen, a former U.S. ambassador and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on Sunday.
“I do see the evidence mounting for the new prosecutions,” Eisen told Christi Paul on Sunday. “We [the Brookings Institution] have published that evidence in a big Brookings report, and we have an evidence tracker that we put out.”
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Eisen referred to a federal judge in California saying evidence suggests that Trump has “likely committed crimes to proof beyond a reasonable doubt” and that he thinks “the evidence is particularly strong for a prosecution in the state of Georgia.”
Trump found himself in hot water after a recording of a phone call between him and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was released, with the former president telling Raffensperger to “find” thousands of missing votes. Raffensperger refused to cooperate and has since been a thorn in Trump’s side as the former president attempts to overturn the election in his state.
The demand to find missing votes has resulted in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis empaneling a grand jury to investigate the phone call. The grand jury was selected last month.
Earlier this month, Raffensperger and five other members of his staff appeared before the Fulton County grand jury.
On Sunday, Eisen reminded viewers that Raffensperger is also expected to appear as a witness before the Jan. 6 committee.
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The committee will hold its second public hearing on Monday, and Eisen said he expects to see more information about the beginning of the “seven-point plan” to overturn the 2020 election.
“Now we’re going to get the foundation, the beginning of that seven-point plan,” Eisen said. “Trump, over and over again, attacking the election, saying he had won. We have already seen the evidence — he knew that was a lie. In other words, the origin of the big lie, including over 60 cases where he tried to push that big lie or his allies did, failing in all but one.”
