Donald Trump/Georgia investigation timeline

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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Former President Donald Trump is the target of multiple legal challenges and investigations, including in Georgia.

Here’s a timeline of the Georgia investigation:

November 3, 2020 – Election Day. Trump is facing a re-election challenge from former US senator and Vice President Joe Biden.

November 19, 2020 – The Associated Press has declared Biden the winner of the Georgia presidential election. Biden became the first Democrat to carry Georgia — or any other deep South state — in a presidential election since Bill Clinton in 1992.

January 1, 2021 Fani Willis is sworn in as the new Fulton County District Attorney. She defeated her former boss and six-term incumbent Paul Howard, who became Fulton’s first female DA.

January 2, 2021 President Trump and White House staff called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to protest the outcome of the state election.

THE CALL THAT STARTED IT ALL

Trump suggested the state’s top election official help him find 11,780 votes, just enough to defeat Biden.

January 20, 2021 – Biden is inaugurated, and Trump leaves the White House as the nation’s 45th president.

February 10, 2021 Willis launched a criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged attempt to change the outcome of the Georgia presidential election. The investigation includes: potential violations of GA law prohibiting solicitation of election fraud, making false statements to state and local government bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to election administration.

January 20, 2022 A special purpose grand jury is requested in Fulton County.

January 24, 2022 Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney was appointed to preside over the special grand jury.

May 2022 A special grand jury is selected.

Summer and fall 2022 – More than 70 witnesses are called to testify before a special grand jury, including some of Georgia’s top political officials: Gov. Brian Kemp; Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr; Raffensperger; former lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan; former White House official Mark Meadows; former US House speaker and Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich; and US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina;) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, now a Trump attorney.

Kemp, Raffensperger and others are in the midst of re-election battles.

June 21, 2022 – Raffensperger tells the Democrat-led congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that Trump’s claims about fraud in the 2020 election are false. Raffensperger told the committee that the Nov. 6, 2020 went very smoothly, with the average wait time to cast a ballot between two and three minutes across the state. I feel that our election was successful, he said.

December 22, 2022 – The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released its final report.

January 9, 2023 The Fulton County special grand jury has completed its work.

January 24, 2023 Willis argues that the grand jury report should be kept private until his office decides whether to pursue indictments. Atlanta News First joined other media outlets in a lawsuit demanding its release.

February 13, 2023 McBurney rules that some parts of the report may be made public.

February 17, 2023 – A heavily redacted Fulton County special grand jury report is partially released, with a majority of the grand jury believing that one or more of the witnesses perjured themselves. The report also said the special grand jury unanimously found no evidence of any widespread election fraud, and recommended Willis seek appropriate indictments for the unnamed perjurers. Trump claimed total exoneration in a social media post.

April 24, 2023 – Willis warns Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat about charging decisions coming this summer related to his investigation. In that same letter, he notifies Fulton County deputies that he will announce charges from his investigation between July 11 and September 1.

May 2, 2023 – Willis says he plans to make a historic decision this summer about his investigation.

May 18, 2023 – Willis sends a letter to Fulton County Superior Court, where the DA informs Judge Ural Glanville of his office’s plan to work remotely for the first three weeks of August and requests that no trials be scheduled during that time.

June 13, 2023 – Trump is federally indicted in Florida, and faces 37 counts of mishandling classified documents. He is the first former president in American history to be indicted by a federal government he once oversaw.

June 22, 2023 – After a Florida judge set August 14, 2023, as a tentative start date for the trial over classified Trump documents, Willis said the timeframe would not affect his investigation.

June 28, 2023 – Raffensperger testifies before federal prosecutors in connection with Trump’s alleged attempts to interfere in the state’s 2020 presidential election. Raffensperger met with investigators from the office of Jack Smith, the US Department of Justice special counsel leading Trump’s federal indictment of former presidents for alleged mishandling of classifieds that document. Two days earlier, Raffensperger urged lawmakers to increase penalties for tampering with or attempting to tamper with voting machines.

July 11, 2023 – Two grand juries sit in Atlanta, one of which is likely to consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for Trump or his allies.

July 14-21, 2023 – The Trumps’ Atlanta-based attorneys continue to make numerous efforts and requests to dismiss the special grand jury report and disqualify Willis from further investigation.

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