It makes the suspense last. A grand jury in the United States investigating interference by Donald Trump’s camp in the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia has recommended indictments against several people, the main juror revealed to American media on Tuesday, without specify whether the former president was concerned.
However, she strongly implied that this was the case on CNN, responding to the reporter: “The big name that everyone asks me about, I don’t think you will be surprised. This grand jury, however, only had an advisory role. The Fulton County prosecutor will have to decide.
The grand jury has been busy for seven months examining accusations that Donald Trump and his allies tried to change the results of the presidential election in Georgia, a southern state of the country, which voted for Joe Biden. Last week, a partially redacted report said at least one person was suspected of lying under oath. It’s not Donald Trump, who didn’t testify before the grand jury.
“Names You Will Recognize”
Emily Kohrs told MSNBC, “It’s not a short list” to discuss the number of people targeted by these grand jury recommendations, and the grievances against them. But the juror did not name names. She also told the channel that more than a dozen people were targeted.
On this list, “there are certainly names that you would recognize”, she added before specifying: “There are also names that you might not recognize”. Emily Kohrs did not reveal whether Donald Trump himself, who recently announced his candidacy for the White House for 2024, was on that list. The juror, on the other hand, told the New York Times that people would not be “shocked” by the revelations of the jury. “It’s not rocket science,” she said.
The prosecutor will have to convince another grand jury
The investigative panel of 23 jurors received testimony from 75 witnesses, including one of Donald Trump’s former White House chiefs of staff, Mark Meadows, and Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham, and ex-New York mayor and former lawyer for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani.
A Georgia judge cleared the release last week of three redacted sections of the grand jury report, revealing that its members found no evidence of large-scale voter fraud, undermining Donald Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him.
Local prosecutor Fani Willis will make the final decision on whether or not to indict those targeted by these recommendations, and convince a classic grand jury to return indictments.
The investigation was launched after a call from Donald Trump on January 2, 2021, in which he urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the 11,780 votes he needed to win this state against Joe Biden. It’s one of multiple investigations examining the potentially criminally wrongdoing of the former Republican president and those close to him, accused of hatching a plan to stay in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election.
