'It's one thing to describe the former president's behavior as disgraceful and wrong — and I'd share that view — but quite another to argue that Trump should be criminally prosecuted,' writes jeffreytoobin for CNNOpinion
Jeffrey Toobin is chief legal analyst for CNN and the author of"The Nine" and"The Oath." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Did Donald Trump commit federal crimes in his final, desperate attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election? The latest revelations about Trump's final days in office demonstrate that his behavior was, at a minimum, outrageous. He pressured his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, to open an investigation of purported fraud in the vote count in Georgia, even though there was no evidence of such wrongdoing. In one call, Trump apparently directed Rosen to"just say the election was corrupt, [and] leave the rest to me.
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