The Atlanta journalist stumbled upon a meeting of Republican fake electors in 2020 and was then summoned to testify before a grand jury that brought charges against the former president
he Fulton county sheriff laid orange barricades in front of the courthouse last week, anticipating a horde of protesters. Courthouse staff were asked to work from home this month. Witnesses before the grand jury contemplating charges in Donald Trump’s latest legal case arrived and departed with arrangements made for privacy and protection. People are nuts, we are reminded. Stay safe, my friends whispered.
Fani Willis’s election interference case investigators decided that was relevant enough to send me a subpoena to testify, first before the special purpose grand jury, and then again this week. And suddenly, I’m in the story. The grand jury meets on the third floor of the courthouse. I got off the elevator to see another wall of deputies. I must have passed at least two dozen on the way into the waiting room. I was familiar with some of them from covering theI told them I was worried about the jail with so many of them here. In pre-pandemic comparison, the jail might lose two or three people to medical conditions or a suicide.
If I had been subpoenaed for anything less critical than testimony that potentially affects the state of democracy in America, I would have holed up like Hunter S Thompson on a mountain in Colorado. I have enough problems with people I actually want to talk to calling me a police-ass so-and-so because I write things they don’t like. I left the army in 1999 and swore I wouldn’t ever work for the government again. Journalists are not agents of authority if they are actually doing their job.
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