Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has impelled a criminal grand jury to hear evidence about attempts to influence the results of the Georgia November voting…
This is the first of maybe two separate criminal investigation in that state that involve Trump , Senator Lindsey Graham , Rudy Giuliani and others efforts to throw away the state’s vote that gave Joie Biden a win there with the electoral vote ….
A criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia is set to intensify this week, as a grand jury convenes, offering the local district attorney her first shot at seeking subpoenas for records and interviews.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her investigative intentions clear with a round of letters to Georgia state officials in February, asking them to preserve documents relevant to election interference as she investigated potential state crimes including the solicitation of election fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.
According to the letters, none of the Georgia officials are targets of the investigation.
“What I was doing, as a courtesy to people that I respect very much, is simply putting them on notice that when a grand jury convened, which would be in March, that they could expect to receive subpoenas,” Willis told MSNBC in February….
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…. while Republican officials in Georgia have been eager to move beyond the drama of the election, they are expected to be drawn back into the investigation as Willis runs down the details surrounding the call with Raffensperger, as well as outreach from Trump and his GOP allies to other state officials
In addition to his call with Raffensperger, Trump also had contact with Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp….
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Willis has said she also has questions about Graham’s efforts in Georgia.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when he called Raffensperger on November 13 and inquired whether Raffensperger could discard all mail-in ballots from counties that had shown higher rates of unmatched signatures, the Republican secretary of state told the Washington Post at the time. Graham has denied the assertions from Raffensperger, who has stood firm on his account.
Graham’s spokesman Kevin Bishop has said that accusations that the senator’s call was inappropriate were “ridiculous.”
“Senator Graham was asking about how the signature verification process worked,” Bishop said. “He never asked the Secretary of State to disqualify a ballot cast by anyone.”
Willis has also expressed interest in exploring testimony from Giuliani before Georgia state senators, in which Giuliani promoted unfounded theories about why Trump won Georgia and a handful of other states that Trump had, in reality, lost.
Giuliani told a room of mostly Republican lawmakers that Georgia’s voting machines could not be trusted, tens of thousands of absentee ballots were illegally cast and not properly counted, and that the legislature should appoint its own electors who supported Trump.
“It’s your responsibility if a false and fraudulent count is submitted to the United States government, and it is clear that the count you have right now is false,” Giuliani said during the hearing….
While I personally believe that there was intent here to steal the election in Georgia,I think it will be very difficult to make such a case in court.
Many of these statements are ambivalent and can be interpreted in several ways.
Maybe something will come out that hasn’t been aired before but as of right now?
I don’t see any indictments forthcoming.
‘Several different ways’ IS the key….
Only person in the room with the grand jury is the DA’s person….
We’ll see….
I’d lean towards U though …..
President Biden on Friday credited Georgia officials with helping to “save our democracy” by standing up to pressure from former President Trump and his allies over the 2020 election.
Biden delivered remarks in Atlanta condemning violence and discrimination against the Asian American community after eight people, six of whom were Asian, were shot and killed there Tuesday evening. But he used the second half of his speech to credit Georgia with both securing his victory and delivering Democrats the majority in the Senate.
The president took a thinly veiled swipe at his predecessor, who spent weeks challenging Georgia’s election results, making unproven claims of fraud and pressuring state officials to overturn the result….
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Biden did those Georgia Republicans no favor.
Indeed his support for their efforts will cost them votes ,and maybe their next election.
Most Georgia Republicans think their officials stole the election from Trump!