Overview
- The New York Times published audio of a Dec. 7, 2020 call in which the president urged Speaker David Ralston to hold a special legislative session to reverse Georgia’s certified outcome.
- On the call, Trump proposed saying the session was “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” asking, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?”
- Trump repeated debunked claims, alleging hundreds of thousands of votes for him and citing false “suitcases” of ballots at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena.
- Ralston replied, “A federal judge, possibly,” did not commit to a session, and later described the exchange to special grand jurors; he has since died.
- The audio is part of investigative materials from Fulton County’s RICO case that listed the call as an overt act, and a related solicitation charge was dismissed in March 2024 for lack of statutory specificity.