FRIDAY 9/8/23

The Georgia special grand jury in the racketeering case that charged Donald J. Trump and 18 others for allegedly attempting to overturn the state’s 2020 Electoral College vote for Joe Biden had also recommended charging Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC, above), as well as then-Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loefler, according to a much-anticipated report released Friday morning. The report says jurors recommended the three should be charged over “the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” per The Guardian. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who issued the indictment in The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump last month, chose not to charge the three. 

The grand jury also recommended indictment of Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.

Perdue and Loeffler were Republican U.S. senators from Georgia through the 2020 presidential election and were in special runoff races when the alleged Electoral College interference occurred. Perdue was defeated by Democrat Jon Ossof and Loeffler was defeated by Democrat Raphael Warnock in the runoff election held January 5, 2021.

--TL