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The 2020 Presidential Election still has some Americans scratching their heads.
How did a man who didn’t come out of his basement to campaign get 15 million more votes than Obama in his presidential wins?
Georgia was a state that came under scrutiny as stories of voter fraud circulated.
In February 2021, The Albany Herald reported that 35 voter fraud cases were “turned over for prosecution.”
Following the election, former President Trump made a phone call in January 2021 to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger reportedly “urging him to ‘find’ enough votes to reverse the state’s results.”
Trump admitted to the phone call and tweeted his displeasure with the results.
He said that Raffensperger “was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!”
Fast forward to February 2023. A special grand jury in Fulton County, GA, investigating whether Trump and his allies attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia released parts of their report.
The report shows that they believe some witnesses committed perjury and recommend “appropriate indictments.”
“The long-awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
“The President participated in two perfect phone calls regarding election integrity in Georgia, which he is entitled to do — in fact, as President, it was President Trump’s Constitutional duty to ensure election safety, security, and integrity. Between the two calls, there were many officials and attorneys on the line, including the Secretary of State of Georgia, and no one objected, even slightly protested, or hung up,” Cheung continued. “President Trump will always keep fighting for true and honest elections in America!”
Several media organizations were clamoring for the grand jury to release the full report, but the Superior Court judge has refused.
Judge Robert McBurney cited “very limited due process” given to Trump’s allies who’ve testified.
“Any recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted will remain secret for now to protect their due process rights,” McBurney wrote.
This week, when McBurney announced that he would release the introduction and conclusion of the report, he also said they would release a section “in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath.”
Prosecutors involved in the hearing tried to persuade the judge to wait to release the report until after they’ve decided on charges.
The panel recommended that the district attorney “seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.”
Who will be indicted? That remains to be seen. The report did not name the witnesses who they believe lied under oath.
During the seven-month grand jury investigation, the jurors interviewed 75 witnesses. Included in that group were Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp, as well as one of Trump’s attorneys, Rudy Giuliani.
