The foreperson for the Georgia grand jury that is considering evidence that former President Donald Trump tried to interfere in the 2020 election gave The New York Times a vague answer when asked whether the panel would recommend Trump’s indictment.
“You will not be surprised. It’s not rocket science,” Emily Kohrs told the outlet Tuesday. “You won’t be surprised at all.”
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney allowed certain portions of the grand jury report to become public last week, but he made sure not to include the names of potential indictees, citing due process issues.
“I will tell you that if the judge issues a recommendation, it will not be some blind plot twist,” Kohrs added. “You probably have a fair idea of what’s in there. I’m trying very hard to be subtle.
Trump and his allies supported Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a call in January 2021 almost two months after Joe Biden won the presidential election, with Trump asking Raffensperger to “find” him just enough votes to tip the results in Georgia in his favor. please. An audio recording of the call was leaked to The Washington Post soon after, and a Fulton County criminal investigation followed.
A 23-member grand jury ultimately concluded that there was no evidence of “widespread fraud” in Georgia’s 2020 election, contrary to claims Trump has continued to make after losing more than two years ago.
Excerpts from the panel’s report released so far do not reveal the specific costs recommended.
But the jurors always recommend costs.
“This is not a short list,” Kohrs told the New York Times. He noted that the panel added eight pages of legal code cited in the report.
The decision on whether to prosecute rests with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The jury panel, which included three alternatives, met to hear testimony and review evidence for seven months starting last May.
Kohrs spoke about what it was like to be part of the investigation in a previous interview with The Associated Press, revealing that his fellow jurors wanted to hear directly from Trump but did not believe he would provide any meaningful testimony. Trump ended up not being called.
“Trump is not the war he chose to fight,” he told the AP.
The jury stated in its report that a “majority” of members believed “perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses” who testified.
“The Grand Jury recommended that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for these crimes where the evidence is strong,” he wrote.