Georgia Prosecutor Asks Grand Jury To Review Lengthy List Of Potential Charges Against Trump

According to new reports, sources who have been briefed on the grand jury investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the election in Georgia say that Fulton County DA Fani Willis has sent the jury a list of potential charges to consider against Donald Trump - and they include charges that were not previously known. Specifically, the recently-revealed charges include solicitation, meaning that Willis might be able to hit Trump for his efforts to influence other states in addition to Georgia. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to new reports, two sources that have been briefed on the goings on with the Fulton County District Attorney's grand jury investigating Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The two people say that Fannie Willis, the Fort Fulton County District Attorney, has now put forth a list of potential charges that Donald Trump and some of his co-conspirators may be charged with. And that list has now been presented to the grand jury. With the grand jury now having the ultimate decision, which do we charge? Do we charge all, do we charge some or do we charge none? This is basically one of the final steps that happens with a grand jury before indictments are handed down. So I think at this point it is relatively safe to say that possibly within the next two weeks, we will see indictments coming out of the state of Georgia, which by the way, does fall into Fannie Willis' timeline that she recently handed out.

So that's not exactly a massive revelation. What is a revelation, however, is that some of the charges that are being considered are charges that had not been previously discussed. Let me read them. Among the state election law charges that prosecutors were examining criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface, or remove ballots. Now, let me explain what that means. This is from the Guardian For Criminal Solicitation charge, prosecutors would have to show that Trump persistently requested another person to engage in certain illegal conduct that are likely and imminent as a result of the solicitation. The fact that the solicited acts were not carried out is not considered a defense. The statute for soliciting a public officer to fail to perform duties could apply to Trump when he pressured the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raff Asperger to find 11,780 votes, as well as his phone calls to Chief Investigator Francis Watson and House speaker David Ralston.

Number two, the statute for soliciting the tampering of ballots meanwhile could apply to Trump when he pressed Watson to go beyond protocol to go back two years, as opposed to just checking, you know, one against the other in conducting signature checks during ballot audits. And number three, prosecutors are also expected to seek a criminal conspiracy charge. The people said the conspiracy statute in Georgia is interpreted broadly, and the District Attorney's office would only need to show that two or more people tacitly came to a mutual understanding to further a crime That could also be the Coffee

County, uh, incident where people paid by Sidney Powell, who at the point, at that point was one of Trump's lawyers. She paid the dude to go down to Coffee County. The Coffee County election worker gladly let him in, let him copy all the information. The information was then uploaded to a private server accessible to Donald Trump and his people.