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riversedge

(70,093 posts)
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 04:14 PM Sep 2021

Georgia criminal probe into Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election quietly moves forward

Source: cnn




Updated 1750 GMT (0150 HKT) September 17, 2021


(CNN)As Donald Trump returns to Georgia later this month, criminal investigators in the state have been quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators as they aim to build a case against the former President for his alleged attempts to overturn the state's 2020 election results.


Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis kicked off her investigation with a splash earlier this year, when she fired off a round of letters to Georgia officials asking them to preserve documents related to Trump just a month after she took office.


Since then, her investigation into Trump's efforts to upend Georgia's 2020 presidential election results has been more discreet as she juggles the early stages of the Trump probe with an avalanche of backlogged cases and rising violence in the Atlanta area.

"What I can tell you is that the Trump investigation is ongoing. As a district attorney, I do not have the right to look the other way on any crime that may have happened in my jurisdiction," Willis told reporters this week. "We have a team of lawyers that is dedicated to that, but my No. 1 priority is to make sure that we keep violent offenders off the street." .......................................

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/georgia-probe-trump-election/index.html






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Georgia criminal probe into Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election quietly moves forward (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2021 OP
K&R Blue Owl Sep 2021 #1
K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2021 #2
Quietly. Loudly. With or without fanfare. I could give a spit! Just move forward ffr Sep 2021 #3
Maybe this will be the case that finally gets Trump. Lonestarblue Sep 2021 #4
As long as the Georgia Governor is a Repuke FakeNoose Sep 2021 #5
And what about Lindsey? LiberalLovinLug Sep 2021 #6
And yet Trump is still doing it now, with his letter to the secretary of state on Friday. Doodley Sep 2021 #7
Donald Trump is sure he can "get away with anything"...Wouldn't it be something if he ends up in... Stuart G Sep 2021 #8
Fani Wilis, the Fulton DA, is struggling to keep up with her regular caselaod Calista241 Sep 2021 #9

ffr

(22,665 posts)
3. Quietly. Loudly. With or without fanfare. I could give a spit! Just move forward
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 06:01 PM
Sep 2021

TFG should have been in handcuffs years ago!

FakeNoose

(32,599 posts)
5. As long as the Georgia Governor is a Repuke
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 07:02 PM
Sep 2021

... I don't have to tell you, Chump will get a pardon.

Maybe slow-walk this until a Dem gets in there? I hope they can see where this is going.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
8. Donald Trump is sure he can "get away with anything"...Wouldn't it be something if he ends up in...
Sun Sep 19, 2021, 10:29 PM
Sep 2021

jail even for... a few months.
.............................Or, because of a guilty finding....loses all of his fortune...All

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
9. Fani Wilis, the Fulton DA, is struggling to keep up with her regular caselaod
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:31 AM
Sep 2021

So i wouldn't hold my breath that this Trump investigation is moving expeditiously.

Fulton County District Attorney’s Office Working To Handle 12,000 Backlogged Cases Amid Pandemic
https://www.wabe.org/fulton-county-district-attorneys-office-working-to-handle-12000-backlogged-cases-amid-pandemic/

Fani Willis wants you to know: “We’re in a crisis”
https://www.ajc.com/politics/opinion-fani-willis-wants-you-to-know-were-in-a-crisis/UPXTPCV3SVHC5OPR72HVZZC444/

I live here, and she's under a lot of pressure to make cases, or suspects will start going free. It's a 4 or 5 alarm fire level on the news every night.

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