Donald Trump made history on Tuesday when he became the first US president ever to be charged with a crime after leaving office. And thanks to a lifetime of bad behavior, he might soon break his own record for most indictments by a sitting or former POTUS, which currently stands at one.
According to The Washington Post, Fulton County District attorney Fani Willis is “expected to announce in coming weeks whether she will file charges in connection to efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.” While it’s possible Willis will not file any charges at all, or will but they won’t be against Trump, there is obviously a chance she chooses to pull an Alvin Bragg and go after the ex-president. For one thing, the special grand jury impaneled by Willis last year reportedly heard at least two phone calls in which the then president pressured local officials to overturn the election results in Georgia, including the infamous one in which Trump demanded state secretary Brad Raffensperger “find” the exact number of votes he needed to turn his loss to Joe Biden into a win. For another, when asked about the recommendations the group made re: which individuals should be charged, jury forewoman Emily Kohrs told The New York Times it was “not a short list,” adding, of whether or not Trump was on it: “You’re not going to be shocked. It’s not rocket science.” Speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, another juror said of the group’s report: “A lot’s gonna come out sooner or late. And it’s gonna be massive. It’s gonna be massive.”
In a court filing, attorneys for Trump demanded the final report from the special grand jury be quashed, claiming that the “results of the investigation cannot be relied upon and, therefore, must be suppressed given the constitutional violations.” His lawyers also claimed that Willis engaged in “instances of forensic misconduct and improper extrajudicial activity,” and should be removed from the case. In a speech at Mar-a-Lago last night, Trump called Willis, who is Black, a “racist,” and insisted his call to Raffensperger was “perfect” and “nothing was said wrong.”
Of course, the Fulton County case isn’t the only one that could result in charges on top of the ones out of New York. The ex-president is also being investigated by the Justice Department for both his attempt to overturn the election and the insurrection that followed and his handling of classified documents. On Sunday, the Post reported that special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the probes, had uncovered “significant” evidence that Trump may have obstructed justice in the documents case. On Wednesday, an adviser to Mike Pence said the former VP would not appeal a ruling ordering him to comply with a subpoena from Smith to testify before a grand jury about his conversations with Trump leading up to the attack on the Capitol.
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