is donald trump ever be brought to justice for decades of his shady, unethical, seemingly criminal activity? On the one hand, the fact that he’s evaded legal action for so long suggests he made a deal with a witch that would allow him to get away with anything and everything in exchange for his brains. On the other hand, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Team Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election is literally out here talking about possible prison sentences. So, there it is!
In an interview with the Washington Post published Thursday, the Fulton County District Attorney said Fan Willis revealed her office has received credible allegations of serious crimes being committed and that “people face jail time if charged and convicted.” She also said an official decision on whether to call Trump before a special grand jury will likely be made “later this fall.”
So far, the Post notes, former Trump attorneys identified as criminal targets of the Georgia investigation include Rudy Giuliani and more than a dozen people who “created unofficial documents proclaiming Trump the winner of the Georgia electoral vote despite losing the state.” When news broke last month that the former New York City mayor-turned-ex-Trump attorney was a target of the investigation, the attorney said Norman iron told the New York Times, “Giuliani is by no means a target of the prosecution’s investigation, and Trump does not end up as one. They are simply too bogged down, factually and legally, in attempting to use bogus voters and other means to overturn the Georgia election results.” (Both Giuliani and bogus voters have denied wrongdoing.) In an interview with a conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Trump said he has yet to receive letters informing him he is the target of a criminal investigation; He also denied participation in a multi-state conspiracy to send fake voters to Washington, falsely claiming that alternative electoral lists were “common.”
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In addition to the election manifesto, Willis’ office is investigating possible criminal wrongdoing in the form of false statements made by Giuliani and others to lawmakers, harassment of election officials, manipulation of voting systems, and calls by Trump and his allies to pressure Georgia officials to end the election to overturn results in the state. On January 2, 2021, Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked Raffensperger to “find” the number of votes he needed to hit. Joe Biden in Georgia and said, “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” before threatening the local official for denying his request. Raffensperger also said that during a phone call in November 2020 Lindsey Graham, The South Carolina senator asked him if he had the power to kick out absentee ballots from certain counties. According to the Post, Willis recently began seeking detailed information about the threats against Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman, who said during one of the committee’s Jan. 6 hearings in June that she was the target of horrific abuses, spearheaded by the ex-president and his allies. “I’ve lost my name and I’ve lost my reputation,” Freeman said in a taped statement. “I lost my sense of security because a group of people, starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, decided to make scapegoats for me and my daughter. Exhaust [Moss]. To spread her own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.” While Willis declined to comment on the recent court filings regarding the alleged harassment, she told the Post, “I hate a bully. Of course, I think we would find it offensive to harass an election official to influence an election.”
Aside from Trump and Giuliani, Willis’ office is also scrutinizing the former Trump attorney Sydney Powell. By post:
Finally, Willis has expanded her investigation to look into whether voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia, have been abusively violated. That interest was originally disclosed in documents requesting testimony from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who worked for the Trump campaign after the 2020 election. The Post was the first to report on efforts by Powell and other Trump allies to copy data from Coffee County’s restricted voting system. The effort came as Trump allies publicly focused on voting machines, arguing they were part of a conspiracy to rig the Biden election.
