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January 9, 2021 at 9:46 AM
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UPDATE: The firm announced that Kaufman has now left Fox Rothschild. Read the full statement below.
UPDATE 2: Kaufman provided a statement reproduced below.
In the wake of a violent takeover of Capitol Hill fueled by thoroughly debunked allegations of a “stolen” election, Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia election officials encouraging them to “find” enough ballots to award him the state may seem like the distant past. But nope, that was just a few days ago.
Not that the call should fade from our memories. The myths that fueled the unruly mob yesterday were forged by the insistence of Donald Trump and his enablers that votes were triple-counted and that zombie Hugo Chavez is secretly running voting machines from his basement. At least four people are dead after yesterday’s assault on the Capitol and there’s a straight line from there to Trump’s election interference efforts.
January 5, 2021 at 5:14 PM
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Cleta Mitchell (image via Foley & Lardner)
After participating in a phone call where Donald Trump was captured on tape pressuring Georgia election officials to commit what election law experts identified as well within the statutory definition of election fraud, Cleta Mitchell is gone as a Foley & Lardner partner.
New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt relayed the Foley & Lardner statement moments ago.
Cleta Mitchell has resigned from @FoleyandLardner. The firm said in a statement: Cleta Mitchell has informed firm management of her decision to resign from Foley & Lardner effective immediately. https://t.co/2peHwUTjOi
The parties apparently never bothered to establish that the call was confidential, resulting in a bombshell when the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the audio and transcript.