The Fulton County indictment would cap off a yearslong investigation into the previous president’s efforts to change the end result of the Georgia election, which Joe Biden narrowly received. In the weeks after Election Day, Trump unfold falsehoods on-line in regards to the consequence, made a personal call to a state official asking to overturn the will of the voters and plotted utilizing fake electors to falsify results. Willis launched the probe in early 2021.
“I can confirm that I have been requested to testify before the Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday,” Geoff Duncan, a Republican who was Georgia’s lieutenant governor throughout the 2020 election, wrote Saturday afternoon on X, the platform previously identified as Twitter. “I look forward to answering their questions around the 2020 election. Republicans should never let honesty be mistaken for weakness.”
An Atlanta-area journalist, George Chidi, additionally posted on X that he was requested to testify Tuesday.
An indictment would possible comply with quickly after witness testimonies, maybe as early as Tuesday afternoon or night. Legal observers had anticipated that the fees would come down in mid-August.
At the start of the month, Trump was indicted on federal charges for conspiring in opposition to the U.S. in his makes an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
On Truth Social, Trump has been railing in opposition to the Georgia investigation — and the opposite three indictments he has confronted — as politically motivated, whereas additionally making unsubstantiated private assaults in opposition to Willis.
“How can they charge me in Georgia?” he wrote on Saturday. “The phone call was PERFECT. WITCH HUNT!”
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