“A majority of the Grand Jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” a panel in Fulton County, Georgia, stated in sections of its final report released on Thursday. Whomever might they mean?
during which President Trump told Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” him 11,780 votes—one more than Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the state. Not to do so, he told Raffensperger, would be “a big risk to you.” Raffensperger, a Republican, did not comply; he was one of the grand jury’s earliest witnesses, and testified for nearly five hours last June.
Trump himself, as far as we know, did not appear before the grand jurors, though this just means that he didn’t have a chance to lie to them in person. It is, indeed, ludicrous to say—as a Trump spokesperson nonethelesssay on Thursday—that the sections of the report that were released “have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.
The results in the state were close. Perhaps Trump could not believe he had lost what had become a swing state—or perhaps the closeness made a manipulation of the results seem doable. With the support of some very loud Georgia elected officials, notably Representative, the Trump team demanded everything it could think of—a recount, an audit, lawsuits. On December 3, 2020, Giuliani appeared at a Georgia State Senate hearing, howling about fraud.
Georgia was becoming a key state in the Trump team’s fake-elector scheme, a plan to submit “alternate” slates of electors and have Vice-President Mike Pence use them as a pretext to block the certification of the Electoral College vote at the joint session of Congress on January 6th. As part of the scheme, at the end of December, Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official, prepared
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