Judge releases part of GA grand jury report on alleged 2020 election tampering

Source: Politico | February 16, 2023 | Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein

Judge releases part of Georgia grand jury report on alleged 2020 election tampering

“No widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election,” grand jury says in final report.

A Georgia grand jury believes at least one witness may have lied under oath as it pursued an investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election, according to excerpts of the panel’s final report released Thursday.

The handful of pages that a state judge ordered released do not identify precisely whom the panel recommended for prosecution, but the excerpts do reveal that the entire special grand jury rejected Trump’s repeated claims that extensive fraud tainted Joe Biden’s win in the state.

“We find by unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election,” the grand jury’s report says, describing its conclusions that detailed testimony from experts disproved such allegations.

The bulk of the report, including recommendations about potential criminal charges for Trump and his allies, remains under seal.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who opposed release of any portion of the report at this time, said during a court hearing about three weeks ago that her decisions about potential prosecutions were “imminent.” She has not provided a further update.

Trump has denounced the investigation as a political vendetta.

“The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” a spokesperson for the former president said Thursday.

The report underscores the extensive investigation that Willis undertook, noting that the panel heard from 75 witnesses, as well as investigators who helped them comb through voluminous documents related to the probe.

The partial release also makes clear that many grand jurors believe that some of the testimony they heard from witnesses subpoenaed to discuss election-related issues and incidents was false.

“A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” the report says. “ The Grand Jury recommends that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.”

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