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Former President Donald Trump is facing a “clear cut criminal exposure” in his effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory in Georgia, legal expert says.
Fani Willis,
the district attorney for Georgia’s Fulton County, opened an investigation into
Trump’s efforts to swing the votes in his favor in the state, Newsweek reports.
Leaked audio
revealed in January 2021 that Trump while still serving as president, pressured
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to “find 11,780
votes” to flip the result in his favor, according to Newsweek.
Willis has
sent so-called “target letters” to several high profile Georgia Republicans who
were allegedly part of a plot to overturn the state’s election results
alongside Trump and his allies.
"The
Fulton County probe represents the most clear-cut criminal exposure facing Mr.
Trump," Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer and partner in the Law
Office of Mark S. Zaid, told The Hill for an article published on Saturday.
"There
is audio, there is witness testimony, there is documentation, and all of that
is currently before a special grand jury. The only question is whether Mr.
Trump's actions were sufficient to bring a criminal charge against him alone
and independent of anyone else, or if the Fulton County DA will need to
encompass his fragmented actions within a broader conspiracy charge tied to
individuals like Mr. Giuliani and the fake electors," Moss explained.
Trump faces possible indictment
Several
legal experts have expressed strong opinion that Mr. Trump may be heading for an
indictment over his efforts to overturn the election in his favor.
"Even
now the proof is there, for example, with respect to strong-arming
Raffensperger to steal the votes of Georgia, that's already there,"
Laurence Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University,
told CBS News on Wednesday, according to Newsweek. "That's why I expect an
indictment from Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, even before an
indictment from the Department of Justice."
Mr. Trump
has severally denied wrong doing often describing such allegations as political
“witch-hunt”.