“I think that is enough. “If you ask me which of the cases at the moment, which one will send Donald Trump to jail, that’s true,” Nick Ackerman told MSNBC on Sunday, referring to a call Trump made with the Georgian Foreign Minister in January 2021. “If I had to put my money in a prosecution here that would send Donald Trump to jail, this is Georgia,” said Ackerman, a former Watergate Special Prosecutor under Archibald Yon Cox. “No question about that.” Fulton County, Georgia has convened a special jury to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. The case focuses on the conversation between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger (R). Trump, who had asked Rafensperger to “find” 11,780 votes to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state, described the phone call as “perfect.” “My phone call to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, with many other people, including many lawyers, to my knowledge, was absolutely PERFECT and appropriate. YES, it was a PERFECT CALL “, he said in a statement that was sent by email late Sunday. Fulton County’s inquiry comes as the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising is conducting a series of hearings this month on the events that led to a pro-Trump mob invading the US Capitol. So far, lawmakers have painted a bleak picture of the violent attack on the Capitol and democracy, which they say was driven by the former president’s rhetoric that the 2020 election stole. Last week, evidence began to emerge that many members of Trump’s inner circle had repeatedly told him that there was no evidence that the election was rigged. They also showed his efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the election results, which Trump knew were illegal because he had been informed by his advisers. In Georgia, the research team began hearing witnesses this month, including Raffensperger. The special judging panel will eventually decide whether the county prosecutors should prosecute Trump for interfering in the election. Ackerman, whose investigation into an illegal burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 documented links to Nixon’s re-election campaign and led to the former president’s resignation, also told MSNBC that the Nixon case happened in a very a different political climate from that of Trump. “All of Nixon’s aides have been charged, convicted. “The only person who did not go to jail was Nixon, because he was pardoned,” Ackerman said. “There was a responsibility in the end.” Ackerman said the “real question” is whether Trump will be held accountable. While Republicans initially defended Nixon, they changed their minds when the tapes and evidence presented a well-founded case. He said that because Georgia prosecutors have videotaped evidence of the telephone conversation between Trump and Rafensperger, they also have an extremely strong case. The January 6 committee tells a story, but there are many gaps. “There is a three-year-old crime in Georgia that Trump has committed. “Prosecutors love videotaped evidence because you can’t cross-examine it,” Ackermann said. “What is important with these tapes is – when you put it in the context of all the evidence revealed by the January 6 commission, you combine it – Donald Trump has zero defense in Georgia,” he added. Updated at 9:42 a.m.
