Georgia Jury May Bring Criminal Cases Against Big Politicians
2023.02.22 02:00
Georgia Jury May Bring Criminal Cases Against Big Politicians
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – On Tuesday, the foreperson of the Georgia grand jury that looked into the efforts of former US President Donald Trump to overturn his defeat in the state’s 2020 election said to the media that the panel recommended multiple criminal indictments.
In interviews with CNN and the New York Times, the foreperson of the recently concluded special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, Emily Kohrs, did not discuss the specific charges that the grand jury heard.
“Some of the names on that list might surprise you. However, “I don’t think you will be surprised by the big name that everyone keeps asking me about,” Kohrs told CNN.
The report of the special grand jury, which concluded that some witnesses may have lied under oath and provided recommendations to prosecutors regarding possible indictments for election interference, was ordered released by a Georgia judge last week.
Indictments could not have been brought by the special grand jury. Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, would need to ask a regular grand jury for permission to do that.
Shortly after Trump’s January 2021 phone call to a state official in which he asked him to “find” additional votes to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden’s election victory, Willis initiated the special grand jury investigation.
Trump maintains his erroneous claim that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election. He has said that he didn’t do anything wrong and that Willis, an elected Democrat, was going after him for political reasons.
On January 2, 2021, Trump lied when he called Brad Raffensperger, the top election official in Georgia, and said that the results of the election were rigged. The call’s recording was made public.
Trump said, “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state,” referring to the 11,779 votes Biden received to win the state.
A crowd of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol four days later in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
Willis has also looked into a scheme in which a group of alternate electors falsely claimed that Trump had won Georgia in an attempt to give the state’s electoral votes to him rather than to Biden. This attempt was unsuccessful.
