When audio of a shocking phone call between the sitting president of the United States and a Georgia official in his own party was published in January 2021, few serious political analysts were convinced of Donald Trump’s description of his “perfect” conversation.
On Monday 15 August, it became clear that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, as well as members of a grand jury, felt the same way. The moment when the incumbent president urged his supposed ally to use his position of power to come up with the exact number of votes he would need to win the election was cited twice in Ms Willis’s charging document released Monday evening, and is now the source of two of Mr Trump’s 13 felony charges in the state.
