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." .......................................
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Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)May the wind be at its back...
RKP5637
(67,089 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)TFG should have been in handcuffs years ago!
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Hes on tape demanding election fraud.
FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)... 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.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,165 posts)Doodley
(9,048 posts)Stuart G
(38,414 posts)jail even for... a few months.
.............................Or, because of a guilty finding....loses all of his fortune...All
Calista241
(5,586 posts)So i wouldn't hold my breath that this Trump investigation is moving expeditiously.
Fulton County District Attorneys 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: Were 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.