Something you’ve probably noticed about former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is that he lies about everything all the time. Whether it’s claiming that Ivanka Trump personally created 14 million jobs or that the sound from windmills causes cancer, the man clearly has some kind of physical ailment that prevents him from telling the truth. And some of his buddies might suffer from the same condition!
On Thursday, a Georgia judge released an excerpt of a report created by a special grand jury tasked with investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in the state. While the group’s specific recommendations for who should be charged were not revealed, the report contained two big takeaways: One, that despite the ex-president’s claims, there absolutely was not “widespread fraud” in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, and two, that one or more people appear to have lied to the jury, which is, yes, a crime.
“A majority of the Grand Jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” the group wrote. “The Grand Jury recommends that the District Attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.” According to The Washington Post, the grand jury spoke to 75 witnesses, including Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, and Georgia governor Brian Kemp. Obviously, it’s possible that the people the jury believes committed perjury are not pals of Trump, though some of those allies are the ones that, like Trump, have a documented history of making false claims or being totally fine with high-ranking individuals telling them. The Post notes that Giuliani is one of at least 18 people who have been notified they are targets of the criminal probe being conducted by the Fulton County district attorney’s office—which had made the request to impanel the special grand jury. The outlet says that last month, Trump’s attorneys “implied in a statement that there had been no formal contact between the former president and his legal team and Fulton County prosecutors,” but did not respond when asked if the ex-president had “been given notice that he is a target of the investigation.”
Speaking of which, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis—who launched her investigation shortly after Trump’s infamous call with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump demanded Raffensperger “find” the exact number of votes he need to beat Joe Biden in the state—has said that charging decisions in the case are “imminent.” Last fall, she told the Post that “If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences.” Possibly not just for trying to overturn the election, but for lying about it too!
This clears up so much
Spoiler alert: they won’t
