‘As Early as Tuesday, We Could Have an Indictment Announced’
Donald Trump's likely to face fresh charges in Georgia election case
Donald Trump is very possibly on the verge of facing a stunning fourth criminal indictment, this time in Fulton County, Ga., over his efforts to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's narrow win in the state.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been signalling, for some time, that her office was preparing possibly to bring multiple charges against the former president related to the now-infamous recorded phone call — in which he asks Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “to find 11,780 votes,” the minimum number needed to overcome Biden's advantage in Georgia — as well as related election interference schemes in the Peach State.
Trump, presently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president in a third bid for the White House, could face perhaps a dozen new counts. These would join the three previous — including two federal — criminal indictments Trump already has to deal with.
Trump is the first former US president to be indicted after leaving office.
“The final steps are to have all the witnesses completed. We are now seeing that there are some subpoenas for [the coming] week,” Jill Wine-Banks, a prominent lawyer who was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal, said of the case Willis is preparing. “So, that means that it won’t happen until at least after their testimony. This does look like it’s high-level witnesses. The lieutenant governor is going to testify on Tuesday.
“So, as early as Tuesday, we could have an indictment announced and possibly unsealed in Georgia. I will have to wear my peach pin when that happens,” she added.
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