'That doesn't sound too surprising': Ex-Trump lawyer unfazed by reported call to pressure Ducey
Donald Trump's former lawyer, who worked for the former president on the Mar-a-Lago documents case, says he's not surprised about reporting that Trump allegedly called Arizona's then-governor in an attempt to reverse his election loss.
Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore appeared on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta Saturday and was asked about a report that Trump spoke to the then-Arizona governor, Doug Ducey, after the 2020 election.
"Ducey, a republican, said the former president was pressuring him to find fraud in the presidential election in Arizona to help him overturn the results of the election," the host said. "What is your reaction to that?"
"That doesn't sound too surprising to me," Parlatore said. He elaborated, saying, "That was really the effort throughout that time, was to go to the states and try to get them to do investigations to find fraud, which is, of course, always the risk when you ask somebody to do an investigation and find fraud, if there is fraud to be found."
He added:
"So it's -- there is nothing about that that particularly surprises me. And the specific words of 'find fraud,' yeah, that's what you would want somebody to investigate."
Parlatore stopped short of calling the Mar-a-Lago documents case a "witch hunt," but claimed the prosecutors are guilty of misconduct that he witnessed in the case.