A book regarding Fani Willis’ probe into former President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger exposed that her evidence was illegally obtained.
According to Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaiddman, authors of “Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election,” Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs discreetly recorded the call.
Fuchs alleged that she recorded the conversation to protect Georgia’s Secretary of State against Trump’s false claims.
However, the Deputy Secretary of State, according to the book’s authors, made the recording while out of state in Florida.
This move, however, was made illegal in Florida as it was a two-party consent state, which deems Fuchs’ actions in violation of the law.
Fuchs ended the 62-minute call, saying they should get off the phone and work to “preserve the relationship” between the two offices.
However, the Deputy Secretary of State quickly worked behind fellow government officials’ backs as she leaked the phone conversation to The Washington Post.
The conversation was a 62-minute phone call between Trump, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows; his attorney, Cleta Mitchell; Raffensperger’s general counsel, Ryan Germany; and Trump’s Georgia-based attorney, Kurt Hilbert, among others.
Framed in the headline of The Post, the paper made it appear that Trump was forcing Raffensperger to overturn the votes in favor of him.
The news agency highlighted Trump’s remarks, saying that there’s “no way I lost Georgia.”
What the authors discreetly admitted, buried in the footnote, was a detail of how Fuchs realized that what she did was illegal.
“Fuchs has never talked publicly about her taping of the phone call; she learned, after the fact, that Florida, where she was at the time, is one of fifteen states that requires two-party consent for the taping of phone calls.”
Additionally, “a lawyer for Raffensperger’s office asked the January 6 committee not to call her as a witness for reasons the committee’s lawyers assumed were due to her potential legal exposure. The committee agreed.”
The book also detailed how Cheney’s defunct January 6 Select Committee worked with Fani Willis to prosecute Trump.
The problem now lies with Fani Willis, whose investigation relied on illegally recorded evidence that has been misinterpreted to fit into the Democrats’ narrative.
“And Fuchs did what was arguably the single gutsiest and most consequential act of the entire post-election battle,” the authors write.
“Without telling Raffensperger or Meadows, she taped the call.”
