MEDIA WINNER: Pamela Brown CNN’s Pamela Brown interrogated Drew Findling about his client’s January 2021 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Just days before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, former President Donald Trump phoned Raffensperger to “find” the necessary number of votes to vault Trump ahead of Joe Biden, who won the state. Findling is now representing Trump in a case where Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn the election in Georgia. While speaking with Findling on Monday, Brown aired a snippet of the roughly hourlong phone call from Trump to Raffensperger, later asking, “Are you worried the facts in this case are not favorable to your client given what we just heard there and other calls?” Findling encouraged people to "look at the evidence" instead of listening to "eight or nine seconds" of a call, claiming that his "client did not break any laws whatsoever.” Brown pushed back, noting that the snippet was not taken out of context, as she read the whole transcript of the call, which shows Trump asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" needed to stop Biden's win. "What is an innocent explanation for that if you’re saying that that is ok?” Brown asked. Findling refused to answer Brown throughout the grilling, dodging Brown when she asked how that call could be acceptable for the president to make. |