Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week. Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal probe.
Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.
Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.
While Trump’s January 2021 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and effort to put forward fake slates of electors have long been considered key pillars of Willis’ criminal probe, the voting system breach in Coffee County quietly emerged as an area of focus for investigators roughly one year ago. Since then, new evidence has slowly been uncovered about the role of Trump’s attorneys, the operatives they hired and how the breach, as well as others like it in other key states, factored into broader plans for overturning the election.
Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 select committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during an Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020, that included Trump...
Connecting the dots from MAGAt nutball consiglieres Sydney Powell and Rudy "Toot Toot" Giuliani right into the Oval Office. This is apparently the third leg of Fulton County DA Fani Willis' indictment, the other two legs being the fake Georgia election certificates and the Malignant Loser's call pressuring the State's Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes." The toast is just about ready to pop.
The death toll from Maui’s wildfires, now at 96, is expected to rise as specialist search teams comb through Maui’s scorched ruins for human remains, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said in a video update. “They know ultimately they will be sharing with our people that there have been more fatalities,” he said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency teams in Lahaina are using trained canines to scout many areas, but even the dogs are finding conditions difficult because of the heat, Administrator Deanne Criswell told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” The FEMA chief described the damaged region as something like “a scene from an apocalyptic movie.” [snip]
State and federal officials are working to source emergency and longer-term housing for Hawaii residents who lost their homes in the fires, Gov. Josh Green (D) said in his most recent update Sunday. “That is FEMA’s primary goal: to get people sheltered and made safe,” he said. The first displaced families were scheduled to begin moving into some of the 500 hotel rooms that Hawaii had sourced for survivors on Sunday, Green said, with more to follow in the coming days. A “large coalition” of officials is coordinating the hotel program out of the governor’s office, Green said.
The Post also has an hour-by-hour visual timeline of the wildfire devastation in Lahaina. Local officials are asking for donations to aid in relief efforts through the Hawai'I Community Foundation.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hopped on the mic to rap Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” before a mostly stagnant audience on Saturday.
Ramaswamy, who dished out a freestyle for Fox News’ Steve Doocy last month, closed a “Fair Side Chat” event with a performance of the iconic hip-hop song at the Iowa State Fair.
The candidate was greeting fairgoers before breaking out into rap toward the beginning of Slim Shady’s first verse as it rang out over the speakers.
“He opens his mouth but the words won’t come out. He’s choking, how? Everybody’s jokin’ now, the clock’s run out, time’s up, over, blaow,” said Ramaswamy before rapping several more lines from the song.
In footage that aired on C-SPAN, the Iowa crowd stood mostly still as the candidate delivered bar after bar onstage. He later abandoned the mic and handed it off to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) just after the chorus began...
First of all, bwhahahahaha, you're no Rap God.
There's nothing more ugly than a multi-millionaire tech bro poseur, who can't read the "stagnant" Midwest- middle- aged- white- people room, laying down some rhymes. What a jabroni.
