The report of a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, suggested charges for a broader group of allies of former US President Donald Trump and stood out in the weekly media agenda that concludes today.
Washington.- A total of 39 people appear in the report, including Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, former Georgia senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, as well as the state’s lieutenant governor Burt Jones.
The document, released in its entirety this Friday after a failed effort by the former president (2017-2021) to prevent it from being shared, details the recommendations for charges in this case of electoral interference.
In many ways, the 28-page text aligns with the indictment of Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis (R), who filed charges against Trump and 18 co-defendants in early August for conspiring to overturn those elections.
“The Georgia Grand Jury report was just released. “It has ZERO credibility and seriously contaminates Fanny Willis and this entire political witch hunt,” the former Oval Office occupant immediately reacted on social media.
According to the former president, who aspires to return to the White House, “basically, they wanted to accuse anyone who was breathing at that moment,” Trump wrote on his Social Truth platform.
Trump called Willis an out-of-control “prosecutor” and made unfounded accusations that she worked for the Justice Department.
The Fulton County grand jury weighed possible charges against several people in connection with an investigation led by Willis into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
In the middle of the election campaign, what is happening in Georgia is just a part of Trump’s various legal entanglements that will take him to trial -from now until the first half of next year- to elucidate the 91 state and federal charges that together weigh on the 45th President of the United States.
Also this week, Peter Navarro, Trump’s former economic adviser, was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena issued by the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In addition, President Joe Biden’s trip to the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, and recent survey data that are beginning to raise alarms among Democrats caught the attention of the media.
The polls showed support for Biden at 39 percent and majority opinions question his age ahead of the 2024 elections.
The president, if he wins a second term, would take office on January 20, 2025, at the age of 82, thus confirming himself as the oldest president in the history of the United States. (PL)
