Some witnesses in the case that the Georgia prosecutor's office is pursuing against Donald Trump for his attempt to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential elections there could have made false testimony and should be charged for it. This is one of the appreciations that the special grand jury in the case, made up of about twenty people and created to assist the Fulton district attorney, Fani Willis, made public this Thursday in a preliminary report on the matter.
Investigators from the special body unanimously concluded that, contrary to what Trump claimed when he tried to falsify voting in the state, "there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 Georgia presidential election that could lead to its annulment."
The grand jury did not make public its possible indictment recommendation for one or more of the defendants. This and other vital parts of his final report are kept secret for now to safeguard the rights of those concerned.
The main charge in the case is the telephone call in which, on January 4, 2021 – two days before the assault on the Capitol – Trump pressured the person in charge of electoral supervision in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to alter the results. elections in the constituency: “All I want is to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we have won the state," Trump asked Raffensperger in the tense dialogue, which he recorded and made public.
The grand jury issued its report after seven months of investigations in which it heard 75 witnesses, including former Trump lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, or Senator Lindsey Graham, as well as Raffensperger himself and Governor Brian Kemp. .
