Those phone calls smack of the mafia-like approach Trump has been said by others to take in private interactions - the kind where he may not say directly what he wants, but he leaves no doubt what he wants. Maybe Ms. Palmer is just too naive to have understood what he was getting at, but her affidavit suggests she read between the lines just fine.
Trump continues to double down rather than abandon his assault on US democracy. That he's willing to make these sorts of calls himself now suggests a new level of desperation and/or frustration with the likes of Graham or Giuliani, whose efforts aren't getting the results he wants.
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