Trump Mocked With Brutal Legal Reminders After 'Telephone' Brag
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"You can do a lot with a telephone," the former president said at a rally in Nevada.
Donald Trump says “you can do a lot with a telephone,” and social media users very much agree.
Trump made the remark at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday, while boasting about how much he could get done by reaching for the telephone as president.
As many users of X (formerly Twitter) pointed out, Trump proved that to be true quite a few times, and might face some pretty severe consequences for it.
Among Trump’s famous presidential phone conversations was a 2019 call to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump was impeached over that call, during which he suggested he would release military aid approved by Congress if the Ukrainian leader opened an investigation into Joe Biden, his likely rival for the presidency at the time.
Another famous call? Trump’s chat to Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, after the 2020 election, urging him to “find” the exact number of votes he needed to overturn his loss to Biden. Trump has been charged with more than a dozen felonies over his attempts to change Georgia’s election result.
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