Willis’ investigation drew on testimony from Trump advisers including Giuliani, who urged state lawmakers in December 2020 not to certify the election, and allies like Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, who asked state officials to examine absentee ballots following Trump’s loss. Trump officials can testify in inquiries into efforts to subvert election outcome and Jan. Strategists said that while the indictments could bolster Republican support for Trump, they may hurt him in next year’s general election, when he will have to win over more independent-minded voters. Trump persists in falsely claiming he won the November 2020 election although dozens of court cases and state probes have found no evidence to support his claim. Georgia, once reliably Republican, has emerged as one of a handful of politically competitive states that can determine the outcome of presidential elections.
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Trump denies wrongdoing in this case as well, and a trial date has yet to be set. In both cases Trump pleaded not guilty.Ī third indictment, in Washington federal court, accuses him of illegally seeking to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He faces a New York state trial beginning on March 25, 2024, involving a hush money payment to a porn star, and a Florida trial beginning on May 20 in a federal classified documents case. Trump has already pleaded not guilty in three criminal cases. Willis’s office said at the time no charges had been filed and declined further comment. The court briefly posted a document on its website earlier on Monday listing several felony charges against Trump, but quickly removed it without explanation. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and accuses Willis, an elected Democrat, of being politically motivated. Willis also investigated an alleged scheme by the Trump campaign to subvert the electoral process by submitting false slates of electors, people who make up the Electoral College that elects the president and vice president. Raffensperger declined to do so.įour days later, and two weeks before Trump was due to leave office, his supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent lawmakers from certifying Biden’s victory. The case stems from a January 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump urged Georgia’s top election official, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to reverse his narrow loss in the state.
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