5 times Trump's phone calls landed him in hot water

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump has repeatedly claimed that a phone call to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he infamously asked for a "favor," was "perfect."
58% : "You can do a lot with a telephone," Donald Trump told an audience in Nevada earlier this week.
53% : Trump also made a call in December 2020 to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston attempting to coerce the then-speaker to call a special legislative session to overturn Biden's victory in the state.
50% : In a bombshell release of the phone call recording, Trump told Raffensperger, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.
47% : According to the foreperson of the Fulton County special grand jury that heard a recording of the 10-minute phone call, Trump asked Ralston who could stop him from calling a special session, to which Ralston responded: "A federal judge, that's who."
46% : The aid was eventually provided, and Trump was acquitted, but not before a crisis that rattled two continents and the halls of Congress.
36% : Perhaps most notoriously, in a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call, Trump pressured Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to help him find the votes necessary to overturn the 2020 statewide election results.
31% : According to the witness -- who had personally moved boxes of documents and had heard possibly incriminating conversations between Trump and his two co-defendants -- Trump's call was one of a series of attempts at contact made by his team that piqued Smith's investigative interest.
25% : The phone call sparked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation that resulted in sweeping criminal charges leveled against Trump and his associates.
11% : Trump was impeached in January 2020 following allegations he withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including his eventual successor, Joe Biden.

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