Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis has announced she will begin to present her election fraud case to a grand jury this week. And she is expected to present a RICO case that will involve several “perps.” Here and there I’ve seen some grumbling that Willis should simplify her case and just aim at Trump, but I disagree. We’ve got Jack Smith doing that already, and Willis is a county-level prosecutor whose first responsibility is to bring Georgia criminals to justice. And, anyway, I wouldn’t presume to second-guess Willis. She seems to know what she is doing.
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week. Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal probe.
Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.
Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.
In other words, Trump’s people were trying to get their hands on voting machines from everywhere in Georgia, but they were only able to do so in hyper-MAGA Coffee County. One suspects similar efforts were made in other states. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are mentioned in the article and may have been involved. Sidney Powell is expected to be the next recipient of a Jack Smith indictment, btw.
In other news: Watch: Far-right activist Ammon Bundy arrested at high school football fundraiser. Heh.
Worth reading: David French, The Lost Boys of the American Right. No paywall.