2023-08-14 19:02:14
Updated: Aug 14, 2023 | 19:02
14 ago 2023 | 19:01
Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) has anticipated a possible new accusation against him this Monday, in this case for his alleged attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections in Georgia, and has defended 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!” , has pointed out on his social network, Truth Social.
The former Republican president considered that he only made a “protest” phone call about the result of the elections in that state, where the Democrat and current president Joe Biden won by a narrow margin. According to an audio recording published in January 2021 by The Washington Post, in that phone conversation Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn the election results after his defeat. before Biden.
Trump has criticized in Truth Social that the prosecutor, in his opinion, “has no interest in seeing the massive amount of evidence available or in finding out who committed that crime.” “He just wants to go for Trump,” she has 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.
Insist on “witch hunt”
“I hardly know him, but from the beginning this witch hunt has been a disastrous disaster for those investigating the voter fraud that took place in Georgia. He refused to hold a special session to find out what happened, he became very unpopular with Republicans (I I refused to endorse him!) and questioned the truth the whole time. A loser,” Trump explained.
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 charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, which 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 an “affair” in the past, to buy her silence during the 2016 election campaign. His other criminal case is in Florida, where he is accused of 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping in his Mar-a-Lago mansion classified documents that he took from the White House after leaving office.
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