What can we learn from the developments in the ongoing criminal investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis concerning efforts to manipulate Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results? Nightly reports👇
— the conclusion is provocative but does not tell us what we really want to know, which is who they were talking about. The report explains that the grand jury “received evidence from or involving 75 witnesses,” so the comment could refer to any of the people who testified, including those who are not national or prominent political figures.
This is an important official finding. But it does not resolve what is likely to be an important legal question for the Fulton County DA’s office as they make initial charging decisions: whether the people claiming election fraud actually believed it at the time.
As a general matter, it would not be unusual in a large, complex criminal investigation for prosecutors to begin with charges against relatively low-level or less prominent individuals in the hopes of obtaining cooperation from those people against more culpable individuals and strengthening the office’s evidence.
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