Georgia prosecutors in Fulton County have reportedly opened a criminal investigation into former President Trump’s recorded phone call with GA Secretary of State Brad Raffsenperger. The announcement comes only days after the Secretary of State’s Office announced it launched an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results.

The Hill reports:

Fulton County’s new district attorney, Fani Willis, sent a letter to state officials on Wednesday asking them to retain documents regarding a Jan. 2 phone call Trump made to Raffensperger, in which the now-former president pressed the state’s top elections official to “find” 11,780 votes, enough to hand him a victory over President Biden in Georgia.

But unlike the secretary of state’s investigation — which was described as a “fact-finding and administrative” inquiry — the Fulton County district attorney’s probe involves a criminal matter that could expose him to potential felony charges.

While his efforts to reverse his loss encompassed several states, Georgia emerged at the center of those attempts after it was revealed that Trump had encouraged Raffensperger in a phone call to “find” the votes needed to reverse Biden’s victory in the state.

During that phone call, Trump repeated several false claims about the election in Georgia — that illegally cast ballots were counted, among other allegations — before insisting that Raffensperger could “find” additional ballots cast for Trump.

Trump officials as well as his impeachment defense team have defended Trump’s call with Raffensperger. His defense attorneys argue that the call was political speech and therefore is protected under the First Amendment.

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