The Georgia “Special Grand Jury” looking into potential 2020
election fraud and criminal activities and especially any hanky-panky from
Trump and his cohorts reported on here from The NY TIMES with this headline – (key elements listed
below – formatted to fit the blog):
“Takeaways from
the Report on the Trump Georgia Investigation”
On February 16, after a lengthy criminal investigation by a Georgia special grand jury into allegations of election interference by Donald J. Trump and his allies, a judge released excerpts from a report drafted by the panel.
The grand jury’s recommendations were redacted, and little new
information was released, but a close reading, together with earlier reporting,
offers some insights into where the case is headed. Here are some key takeaways:
Legal experts say Mr.
Trump remains in real jeopardy in GA:
The Trump “Big Lie” continues via his post on “Truth Social” that same
afternoon when he thanked the special grand jury for its “Patriotism & Courage” and added: “Total exoneration. The USA is very proud of you!!!”
My Insert Note: Trump was NOT
totally or even partially exonerated by that partial release of information –
NOT one bit. Trump claiming that does not make it so.
In fact, the portions of the grand jury’s report that
included recommendations on possible indictments were not revealed. Many legal
experts continue to see two significant areas of exposure for Mr. Trump.
* The first area is Trump’s direct involvement in recruiting
a slate of alternative presidential electors after the 2020 election, even
after Georgia’s election results were re-certified by the state’s Republican
leadership.
* The second was a telephone call (January 2, 2021) Trump made
to Brad Raffensperger the GA Secretary of State.
Trump told him to “just find 11,780 votes,” which he said
was one more he needed win over Joe Biden.
Norman Eisen, a lawyer who served as special counsel to the
House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment of Trump, and a
co-author of a lengthy Brookings Institution report on the Fulton County
investigation, said: “Even before we got these initial statements from the
special grand jury, we knew Trump was in deep criminal peril because of the
mountain of evidence that has accumulated that he violated Georgia statutes.”
The jurors did make
recommendations about indictments:
The special grand jury noted in its report that it had voted on indictment
recommendations, though the released excerpts do not reveal what the results of
those votes were.
The jurors wrote that they had “set forth for the Court our recommendations on indictments and relevant statutes.”
(Note: A special grand jury cannot bring indictments, but can make
recommendations to the DA for such indictments.)
In ordering that only portions of the report be released, with all names redacted, the judge handling the case may have provided a clue to the grand jury’s recommendations.
Judge Robert C.I. McBurney
of Fulton County Superior Court, said he was limiting the extent of the release
because the grand jury inquiry, by its nature, allowed for only “very limited
due process for potential defendants.” The judge’s stance would have been
unlikely if the grand jury had not recommended indictments.
One specific issue raised in the excerpts is perjury. A
majority of jurors believed that perjury may have been committed “by one or
more witnesses,” though those witnesses were not identified.
But perjury is not the only potential charge the grand jury
discussed, since the jurors say that the un-redacted report includes an
appendix listing a number of applicable statutes.
Noteworthy is that none of
the 23 jurors believed there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election
in Georgia.
In the released excerpts,
the jury noted that it had reached a unanimous conclusion specifically saying: “No
widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that
could result in overturning that election.”
In other words the
election was fair and square and not stolen from Trump has he has been saying
ever since election night November 3, 2020 in which he lost to Joe Biden by
some 7 million votes.
It also suggests that none of the jurors were hardline Trump
supporters who had adopted his false claims that the election was stolen, even
though it is likely that some of the jurors possibly did vote for Trump.
My 2 Cents: The Special Grand Jury report and the pending decision from DA Fani Willis is not good news for Trump or his few allies.
Hopefully
Trump will be indicted, tried and convicted in GA for this pressure on the GA
officials to flip the election to him over Biden… the proof is as clear as day
and his own words in the phone call to the GA SOS proves that without any doubt
or at least it should.
Secondly is the drove of
highly classified documents that Trump hoarded at Mar-a-Lago saying at various
time they were his to keep and all the lies in between then and now.
The NY AG and the Manhattan DA pending cases compete his nasty criminal list. The man has only thing to worry about: Who will nail him first and how much jail time will be have to bargain for?
But also keep in mind that Trump will fight this day and night – it’s his character and he has escaped justice all his adult life but hopefully not now!!! Keep in mind along this nasty saga that: “No One is Above the Law.”
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