Georgia prosecutors plan sweeping racketeering indictment of Trump in election interference case: report

Georgia prosecutors are reportedly planning to use state racketeering counts to indict former President Trump in a sweeping 2020 election interference scheme in the state.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis plans to charge Trump with crimes involving tampering with witnesses and computer crimes as part of a plot to overturn his narrow but historic loss to President Biden in the critical battleground state, the Guardian reported Friday.

The new revelation suggests prosecutors might focus on Trump’s demand that election officials “find” just enough votes to beat Biden and the Trump campaign’s alleged effort to hack into election data files in search of evidence of non-existence vote fraud.

Two Atlanta grand juries were recently seated with at least one of them expected to hear evidence in the Trump election case.

Willis has previously suggested decisions on charging Trump or others would take place in the first two weeks of August.

The decision comes after a two-year probe by a special Fulton County grand jury that recommended charges against Trump and several cronies in January.

The Georgia indictment also comes as special counsel Jack Smith nears charging Trump in connection with his alleged plot to overturn the entire 2020 election, a push that culminated with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Trump is the first former president in American history to be charged with federal crimes in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. He is also facing a March 2024 trial on New York state charges tied to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The Georgia investigation was launched after Trump phoned Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021 to demand that he should “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we (need).”

Raffensperger pushed back against Trump, explaining that the state had categorically debunked conspiracy theories about supposed widespread fraud in Biden’s win.

An audiotape of their phone conversation was released the next day.

Days later, a violent mob of Trump’s extremist supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a failed effort to block Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.

Trump’s team also spread bogus claims about Atlanta election workers rigging votes for Biden and unsuccessfully pushed Republican lawmakers to proclaim him the winner despite losing the certified vote.

The probe also looked at Trump’s scheme to create an alternate slate of fake electors that could have challenged Biden’s real slate for legitimacy in Georgia.

It’s unclear if any of that part of the scheme will be part of Willis’ case.

The reported charge over computer crimes in Willis’ racketeering case against Trump raises the possibility that she might delve into the less widely known effort by Trump campaign officials to improperly gain access to voting machine data.

Pro-Trump election officials in rural Coffee County allowed Trump operatives to investigate claims of fraud related to Dominion Voting Systems election machines.

Trump acolytes claimed the data showed widespread discrepancies that helped Biden but state officials called the claims ridiculous.