Posted on 02/16/2023 7:35:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On Thursday, a Judge in Fulton County, Ga., released portions of a grand jury’s report on its investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to interfere with the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
“The Grand Jury was impaneled to investigate a specific issue: the facts and circumstances relating directly or indirectly to possible attempts to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 presidential elections in the State of Georgia,” reads the report.
District Attorney Fani Willis convened the grand jury, which met for eight months and interviewed 75 witnesses, including Gov. Brian Kemp, (R-Ga.), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani. The grand jury didn’t even bother to call Donald Trump himself as a witness.
It’s unclear whether Willis thought she had the goods on Trump and could bring him down or whether she called for a grand jury to bring attention to herself and even position herself for higher office.
It all smacks of the narrative of “the walls are closing in on Trump” that we’ve heard for years. The trouble is that the grand jury’s findings were a bit of a nothing-burger.
The grand jury had a tall order on its hands, and Willis tasked it with looking for evidence to charge a litany of crimes, including criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, making false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office, and involvement in violence or threats related to election administration.
Instead of closing in the walls on Trump, his administration, or even Georgia Republicans, what the grand jury brought us was something like, “we think there might have been some perjury.” Not exactly a barn-burning investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
The special grand jury in Georgia is pretty much a dud. They went in looking at (1) Criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; (2) Making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies; (3) Conspiracy; (4) Racketeering; (5) Violation of oath of office; and…
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 16, 2023
(6) Involvement in violence or threats related to election administration.
What they come away with is recommending possibly four indictments for perjury. That’s it. And Trump didn’t participate with the grand jury, so he can’t be one of the four people.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 16, 2023
A grand jury and its alternates met for eight months, called dozens of witnesses, and exhausted taxpayer resources at the behest of a grandstanding district attorney. There’s no telling how much this investigation cost the taxpayers of Fulton County, but it’s painfully obvious that it was a waste of money.
bkmk
She's a stooge and a hack.
So is Amero.
Consider this:
“Witnesses are not subject to any cross-examination. The rules of evidence do not apply, so evidence that could not be admitted at trial (e.g. illegally obtained evidence, hearsay) can still be presented to the grand jury for consideration”
If the grand jury thinks there might have been perjury it sure as hell happened. The grand jury is in the total control of the prosecutor. If the jury thinks perjury happened the prosecutor KNOWS perjury happened, probably with his connivance.
A defendant has the right to cross and confront a charge or witness in a trial. He does not have this luxury before a grand jury. I have always felt this is an injustice of our legal system. A corrupt prosecutor with the monetary backing of the state can bring charges and trial and bankrupt an innocent man by political design. It is called “Lawfare.”
maybe they wasted all those dollars running headlines like “we think Georgia may be the court that gets Trump,, again,,, finally, again.”... but alas,, it was a “dud” again,, finally, again....
A prosecutor who knowingly brings a frivolous charge must be held to account.
When the criminals run the show, don’t expect much.
Must be nice to have unlimited taxpayer resources to destroy the lives of your political enemies AND the poor people stuck serving on this sham grand jury for months on end.
4. You summed up these leftist flicks very accurately. Hope the voters wake up down there and clean house. We need sweet Georgia peaches, not rotten ones.
Every dumb leftist in the U.S. wants to be the person who brings down Trump.
“... criminal solicitation to commit election fraud”
Who thinks up these faux ‘crime’ names anyway. ‘Solicitation’ is just another term for a sales pitch. And who decides what the ‘criminal’ part means or the components required to make it ‘criminal’. If you are a salesman explaining your product, at what point does the explanation become ‘criminal’?
It has been said that by the time you brush your teeth in the morning you have committed some crime or misdemeanor that is very obscure but on the books somewhere. This playing with the language begs the question: what is the legal term for the crime of breathing?
IMO all this means is that the obfuscation of the language is to keep the legal ticks in business on one side, and to give the ‘authorities’ a ‘hook’ into your life at just about any level. Basically it is all bull-shiite.
but they got their process crime which was the whole point of the persecution
the goal of a political persecution is to ensnare the principal or one of their associates in a process crime
If a judge is a failed lawyer, what is a lawyer?
Trump Grand Jury Probe Was a Waste of Time and Money
As all the rest were another head gets mounted on Trump’s room.
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