Jurors recommend charges against more Donald Trump allies in the Georgia election overturn probe.
A Georgia grand jury investigating ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election recommended charges against more of his allies including three lawmakers.
The special grand jury called for indictments against 39 people – a much larger pool compared to the 19 including Trump that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged under the state’s anti-racketeering law.
Among those who were not indicted but jurors saw fit to be charged are former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former Georgia GOP senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
The nine-page unredacted report was released on Friday. Though parts of the report were unveiled in February, they did not reveal the jurors’ recommendations on who exactly they thought should be indicted.
Graham, who has gone golfing with Trump, asked Georgia officials to look into absentee ballots after Joe Biden garnered more votes in the election. Loeffler and Perdue were the two senators representing Georgia at the time.
Other individuals jurors called to be indicted were Trump’s adviser Boris Epshteyn and lawyers Cleta Mitchell and Lin Wood.
The grand jury ‘contained no election law experts or criminal lawyers’, according to the report.
But ‘the majority of this Grand Jury used their collective best efforts… to attend every session, listen to every witness, and attempt to understand the facts as presented and the laws as explained,’ it stated.
Trump on Friday afternoon slammed the grand jury report.
‘It has ZERO credibility and badly taints Fani Willis and this whole political Witch Hunt,’ wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform.
‘Essentially, they wanted to indict anybody who happened to be breathing at the time.
‘It totally undermines the credibility of the findings, and badly hurts the Great State of Georgia, whose wonderful and patriotic people are not happy with this charade of an out of control “prosecutor” doing the work of, and for, the DOJ. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!’
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in February delayed the release of the list of people to protect their due process rights.
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