Fulton County grand jury also wanted to indict Lindsey Graham for election fraud: Fani Willis’ Trump panel report reveals 21 OTHERS, including Michael Flynn, three Republican senators targeted
- Newly released court documents reveal who else has been recommended by Georgia’s grand jury for indictment in this sweeping election fraud case
- Graham had called the Georgian foreign minister after the election
- It is unclear why he and the others have not been charged
The Fulton County grand jury has recommended charges against Lindsey Graham in the Georgia election case, new court filings showed.
Jurors also recommended charges against Michael Flynn, who had served as an adviser to Donald Trump, and Georgia’s two former Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
The original indictment against Trump and 18 other co-defendants included details about 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” — people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges participated in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
Graham, the Republican senator from Georgia and a staunch Trump ally, had called for Georgian Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Raffensperger has said he has interpreted questions about whether he could reject certain absentee ballots as a suggestion to reject legally cast votes.
The Georgia grand jury wanted to indict Lindsey Graham in the election case, according to new court documents
Graham has said that as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee he was interested in cases of possible voter fraud. He has denied any wrongdoing.
“I was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and had to vote on certifying an election,” Graham told reporters this summer. ‘This is ridiculous. This weaponization of the law must stop. Therefore I will use the court. We will go as far as necessary and do whatever it takes to make sure people like me can do their jobs without fear of a prosecutor coming after you.”
Graham fought against testifying before the Georgia grand jury and was ultimately ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.
The grand jury heard from about 75 witnesses for seven months before finalizing a report in December with recommendations for Willis on allegations related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
It is unclear why Graham was not charged and what charges he would have faced if he had been.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the partial disclosure of the report in February, but immediately declined to release the panel’s recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted. The judge said at the time that he wanted to protect people’s rights to a fair trial.
McBurney said in a new warrant filed Aug. 28 that due process concerns are moot, as a regular grand jury has indicted Trump and 18 other people under the state’s anti-racketeering law. All have pleaded not guilty.
The portions of the report released earlier in February include the introduction and conclusion, as well as a section in which the grand jurors expressed concern that one or more witnesses may have lied under oath and urged prosecutors to drop charges. for perjury. The panel’s foreman had said in news interviews that the special grand jurors recommended that numerous people be indicted.
Friday’s newly released court documents also mention the jury’s concerns about being lied to: “A majority of the Grand Jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses who testified to that effect.” The Grand Jury recommends that the District Attorney file appropriate charges for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.”