Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have long articles detailing what we know about Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Both are worth reading; no paywalls. The New York Times says that about 20 people have been informed they could face indictments in Fulton County.
Axios is reporting that it’s very possible the Georgia trial would be televised. “Georgia law requires that cameras be allowed during judicial proceedings with a judge’s approval. Cameras are seen as an important aspect of transparency,” it says. A judge would need a compelling reason to bar cameras.
Axios is also reporting that Trump is doing public witness tampering.
Former President Trump on Monday appeared to warn former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan against testifying before the Fulton County grand jury in the state’s 2020 election probe.
Driving the news: “I am reading reports that failed former Lt. Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, will be testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday.
“He shouldn’t. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt, a nasty disaster for those looking into the Election Fraud that took place in Georgia.”
Duncan, who criticized Trump’s false election fraud claims in 2020, said Saturday that he had been told to appear Tuesday before the Fulton County grand jury.
In other indictment news: David Kurtz at TPM reports that Trump spent the weekend blasting nasty social media posts at Judge Chutkan, who is overseeing his federal J6 trial. See also Trump jabs at judge in election case, testing warning against ‘inflammatory’ statements at Politico.
Trump’s maybe trying to goad her into doing something to get her removed from his case, or he’s trying to intimidate her, or he’s trying to get her assassinated. Whatever.
Kurtz’s analysis is very much worth reading. I’ll just quote a little bit —
I don’t expect dramatic action from Chutkan immediately for reasons that mostly make sense in this particular moment: she might not want to escalate this fight too quickly but rather leave herself room to ramp up down the road when it might really be needed, she doesn’t want to get bogged down in First Amendment fights over a gag order, she doesn’t want to feed Trump’s narrative of this all being a personal attack on him. … But I suspect she and Trump are on a collision course that can’t be avoided indefinitely.