


Former President Donald Trump made a call to a top Georgia official urging him to convene a special session to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in the state, according to a recording of the phone conversation obtained by Fulton County investigators.
The previously unreported phone call was played for jurors as part of the Fulton County investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his presidential defeat, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The audio recording marks the third known phone call Trump made to officials in Georgia in the weeks following the 2020 election.
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In the recording, Trump called former Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to push for a special session to overturn Biden’s slim victory in the Peach State that helped him clinch the presidency. Ralston did not follow through with the request.
“[Ralston] basically cut the president off,” one juror said. “He said, ‘I will do everything in my power that I think is appropriate.’ … He just basically took the wind out of the sails. ‘Well, thank you,’ you know, is all the president could say.”
The revelation comes after the special grand jury in Fulton County concluded its work and made several recommendations for indictments. The case is now in the hands of District Attorney Fani Willis, who will decide whether to press charges.
The grand jury released portions of its report in mid-February detailing its monthslong investigation into Trump’s actions surrounding the 2020 election. The investigation centered on a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the former president pushed Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes to secure his win in Georgia and overturn Trump's loss in the 2020 election against Biden.
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The jury called more than 70 witnesses to testify in the investigation, including several high-profile Republican leaders and Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).
Trump has maintained he did not commit any wrongdoing and that his conversation with Raffensperger was a "perfect call.”