A US grand jury has recommended multiple charges against Trump for trying to overturn his election loss

A grand jury investigating attempts to donald trump to cancel your electoral defeat of 2020 in the Georgia State, recommended charging the former Republican president with multiple counts, the panel chairman revealed on Tuesday.

The tax Emilie Kohrs reported on the findings of the Georgia Grand Jurywhich investigated for seven months whether Trump broke the law, but did not identify those involved in the attempted interference in the election results.

“not a short listKohrs said of the people and crimes that appear in the jury’s final report, adding to the network MSNBC What more than ten people are under the control of justice.

“Yes, there are names that you will certainly recognize“, he added.

Prosecutors have spent two years investigating whether Trump and his allies committed crimes in an attempt to reverse his defeatfor just under 12,000 votesin the state of Georgia before the victory of the current American president Joe Biden.

Among those implicated are Trump’s former attorney, Rudy Giulani there 16 Republican activists who posed as “voters” to sign certificates falsely claiming the Republican mogul had won the state.

Kohrs did not reveal whether Trump, a 2024 White House hopeful, is among those he recommends impeachment.

However, he told the newspaper The New York Times that he “wouldn’t be surprised” by such a discovery.

The panel of 23 jurors heard testimony from 75 witnessesincluding the fourth Trump’s chief of staff, Mark MeadowsRepublican Senator, Lindsey Grahamand Giuliani.

Last week, a Georgia judge cleared the release of three sections of the grand jury report, where members say they found no evidence of massive voter fraudrefuting Trump’s thesis.

The published sections did not include specific recommendations for prosecution, but revealed that the jury believed the witnesses may have lied under oath.

” Unanimously, we conclude that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia this could lead to the cancellation of those,” that panel said in the document.

The investigation was launched after Trump called on January 2, 2021, to Georgia election officials, asking them to “find” the 11,780 votes he needed to defeat Biden in the state.

Kohrs assured the network CNN that he had listened to more recorded calls from Trump during the process.

It is one of multiple ongoing investigations into alleged crimes committed by the former president and his close aides, accused of being involved in a plan to stay in power despite the Trump’s electoral defeat.

The Democratic District Attorney Fani Willis will make the final decision on prosecution after presenting the panel’s findings to one of the regularly convened criminal grand juries in Fulton County, Georgia, a process that may have already begun.

After Trump repeated lies about the alleged fraud, a crowd of his supporters stormed the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021, to prevent certification of Biden’s victory, in riots in which five people died.

(With information from AFP and CNN)

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