Fani Willis brings Georgia officials before grand jury as indictment looms
Ashley Oliver
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called several witnesses to testify before a grand jury Monday ahead of an anticipated indictment against former President Donald Trump related to the 2020 election in Georgia.
The witnesses included former Democratic state lawmakers Bee Nguyen and Jen Jordan, secretary of state official Gabriel Sterling, and former Lieutenant Gov. Geoff Duncan, among others.
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The timing of their appearances, which some of the witnesses themselves announced through statements over the weekend, added to speculation that an indictment could come within days, based on Willis’s typical time frame for presenting cases to grand juries, particularly those involving racketeering charges.
Attorney John Floyd, who specializes in RICO charges, appeared Monday before the grand jury and was “hands on” during presentations throughout the day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Trump is widely expected to be hit with charges of racketeering for his and his allies’ alleged attempts to illegally overturn the 2020 election, which Trump narrowly lost in Georgia by a razor-thin margin of about 0.2%.
Nguyen and Jordan were among those who listened to presentations from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming widespread election fraud had affected the state’s election.
Nguyen released a statement Monday confirming that she had testified, while the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared a photo of Jordan appearing for hers.
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Sterling, who was also spotted by an Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist in the courthouse, was at the forefront of investigations into allegations of voter fraud in Georgia in the aftermath of 2020. Sterling worked closely with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, with whom Trump had a now-infamous phone call during which he urged Raffensperger to find enough votes to win him the election.
Duncan, a Republican and vocal Trump critic, announced Saturday that Willis’s office asked him to testify Tuesday. Trump tore into Duncan on his social media platform Truth Social after hearing reports that the former state official would be meeting with the grand jury.
“He shouldn’t. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt, a nasty disaster for those looking into the Election Fraud that took place in Georgia,” Trump stated. “He refused having a Special Session to find out what went on, became very unpopular with Republicans (I refused to endorse him!), and fought the TRUTH all the way.”
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Substack writer George Chidi also said he was called to testify on Tuesday before revealing that a “change of plans” had occurred and that he would be testifying Monday instead because “they’re moving faster than I thought.”
He said later on Monday that he was sitting next to Duncan “waiting to go,” indicating the pair would both be speaking to the jury that night.
Chidi’s comment that testimonies had been expedited was made after Reuters published a document that listed several felony charges against Trump related to the 2020 election. The outlet stated the document had appeared on the Fulton County court’s website but that it was quickly taken down.
The document nevertheless spread quickly online, leading the county clerk’s office to release a statement saying it was “fictitious” and that the office would notify the media of any official court filings in real time.
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Trump’s lawyers issued a statement saying the confusion was “emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.”
As of this story’s publishing, no indictment had been announced, and witnesses were still meeting with the grand jury at the Fulton County courthouse.