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Lawyer Who Was on GA Conference Call With Trump Resigns From Her Firm

Cleta Mitchell’s involvement in pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to overturn the election in Trump’s favor had “concerned” her employer.

A volunteer lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign has resigned her position as a partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner after her involvement in the explosive conference call between Georgia’s secretary of state and Trump was made public. Cleta Mitchell wrote in a statement to Insider, “I have decided that it is in both of our interests that I leave the firm.” Mitchell aided the president in pressuring the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the state’s election results in the Jan. 2 phone call, and she previously described her role as a “volunteer” for the Trump campaign in its longshot and fact-free efforts to overturn the election. In a statement released Monday, her firm said, “Foley & Lardner LLP is not representing any parties seeking to contest the results of the presidential election...We are aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 conference call.”