he s also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani willis s investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and i spoke last night with congressman, jamie raskin, and about these increasingly desperate looking moose on the part of the trump team. listen to what he told me. you can t prosecute him when he is president, because he s president. you can t prosecute him after he sees president, because he is running for president. you can t impeach and convict him, they argued. you can t use the impeachment process because, really, he should be tried, they say. use the criminal statutes. but you
the same thing here. he might have been convinced that he won the election. that does not excuse the attempts to create phony electors. that does not excuse the attempt to pressure the vice president. it certainly does not excuse his call to his mob to head up to the hill. the type of intent that you need here is much less than trump s recognition that he lost the election. it would be nice to have that information. it would be nice to have that evidence. it would certainly impress the jury. but it is not essential to prove trump skill. s nowhat is your sense of, it cynthia? this is an interesting thing. donald trump, whether he violently thought he won or lost the election, then did a whole lot of things that are, allegedly, outside of the law. possibly very dangerous. undermining democracy. how do you feel about that? i wholeheartedly agree. this discussion of, oh no. what did he say? it s ridiculous. the point is, he set up fake electors. he knew that that was unlawful.