A potentially year-long process that could end up with the ex-president is what the Fulton County, Georgia district attorney is investigating.
President Donald Trump is in Georgia on December 5, 2020 for a rally.
The grand jury will only consider charges related to the Fulton County district attorney's investigation and whether or not Georgia laws were violated.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she wants the grand jury to subpoena 30 people who have declined to testify, and investigators have already interviewed more than 50 witnesses.
The witnesses won't be interviewed until after Georgia's May 24 primary, and legal experts wrote in a New York Times op-ed that the jury will start with less controversial witnesses before calling major figures like Trump.
A special grand jury can issue a report that can recommend an indictment, but it can't actually bring charges, so it's up to a regular grand jury to issue one.
If the grand jury finds evidence of wrongdoing, Trump could be charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation, intentional interference with performance of election duties or violations of state racketeering laws.
Whether Trump will be punished. The analysis concluded that the ex-president faces a substantial risk of state charges predicated on multiple crimes, and that Trump's efforts to overturn the results were well outside of his responsibilities.
At a January rally, Trump protested the investigation and other probes into his activities after the election.
The Journal Constitution has learned that in February of 2021, Willis opened her investigation into Trump's post- election activities in Georgia. A grand jury will be convened in January. The investigation will include the phone call in which Trump asked the Georgia Secretary of State to get enough votes for him to win the state. The probe is looking into a phone call that Lindsey Graham made to Raffensperger in November of 2020 in which he asked him to reject some Absentee Ballots.
A separate grand jury looking into the ex-president and potential financial wrongdoing at the Trump Organization expired in New York City last week without bringing any charges. The New York Times reports that work on the investigation seems to have stopped, making it unlikely that any charges will be brought.
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