2023-08-14 19:43:59
Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) anticipated a possible new accusation against him this Monday, in this case for his alleged attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in Georgia, and stressed that he did not manipulate the elections in that state.
“I understand through illegal leaks to fake news outlets that the phony Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis desperately wants to indict me on the ridiculous claim of rigging the 2020 presidential election. No, I did not rig the election!”he said on his social network, Truth Social.
The former Republican president considered that he only made a phone call “of protest” on the result of the elections in that state, where Democrat Joe Biden won by a narrow margin.
According to an audio recording, published in January 2021 by The Washington Post, in that telephone conversation Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “will find” votes to overturn the election results after his loss to Biden.
Trump criticized in Truth Social that the prosecutor, in his opinion, “have no interest in looking at the massive amount of evidence available or finding out who committed that crime”. “He just wants to go for Trump”he stressed.
Willis called this Saturday to testify this week before a grand jury several witnesses of the alleged attempt to invalidate the elections in Georgia.
Among them is former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, who was a longtime Trump supporter but publicly broke with him after the 2020 election.
“I hardly know him, but from the beginning this witch hunt has been a grim disaster for those investigating voter fraud in Georgia. He refused to hold a special session to find out what happened, became wildly unpopular with Republicans (I refused to endorse him!), and questioned the truth all the time. a loser”Trump noted.
The origin of the investigation that could lead to the former president’s fourth criminal charge was precisely the phone call with Raffensperger.
Earlier this month Trump was indicted by a Washington DC grand jury on four counts, including allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election result, that culminated in the assault on the country’s Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition, in New York he has been charged with 34 charges for alleged irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had a “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
His other criminal case is in Florida, where he is charged with 40 counts of unlawful taking and holding at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. classified documents that he removed from the White House after leaving power.
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