Up to 23 grand jurors will soon decide whether to indict those who tried to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election, a case that could entangle former President Donald Trump.
Fulton County prosecutors have spent over two years probing these efforts, spurred in part by a phone call Trump made to Georgia’s Secretary of State asking him to “find” the votes he would have needed to beat Joe Biden in Georgia. Prosecutors have also been investigating a plan to submit a slate of false electors, among other threads.
District Attorney Fani Willis, has suggested she will ask a grand jury for indictments in August and has told law enforcement to prepare for a “significant public reaction.”
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