Almost two and a half years after the 2020 elections, Donald Trump continues to reap judicial failures in his attempts to reverse the election result. The latest, in a Grand Jury investigation in the state of Georgia – a traditionally Republican fiefdom in which the Democrats won a resounding victory in 2020 – which has concluded, after calling 75 witnesses (including very close associates of the president and to Senator Lindsay Graham) that there was no fraud.
The Grand Jury’s ruling could serve to open a criminal case against some of the witnesses, since it maintains that several of them committed perjury. However, the judge in the case, Fani Willis, has decided to keep the summary secret in most of the document, so no one knows who could be prosecuted in the event that the magistrate made that decision. Willis has justified her decision so as not to hinder the investigation, which is ongoing.
The opening of criminal cases must be carried out by another grand jury. Among the people who have testified are, in addition to Graham, the former Trump National Security Adviser and current leader of the US far-right, General Michael Flynn; the then-president’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows; former New York Mayor and Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani; Georgia Governor Brian Kemp; and several of Trump’s lawyers.
The controversy over the results of the elections in Georgia became famous with Trump’s phrase to the state’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to whom he said that “all I need is this: 11,780 votes, which is one more than I we have, because I won in the state”. Thus, the president asked Raffensperger to invent the votes he needed to overcome the electoral advantage of 11,779 ballots that Joe Biden had taken from him in the state. In 2020, the dominant Republican Party in the region suffered a historic defeat in Georgia, losing the presidency and the two senators from the territory. Trump, however, has only declared that there was fraud in the elections that he lost.
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