After months under seal, a report by the Georgia special grand jury that investigated whether any charges should be brought against former President Trump and a throng of co-defendants was released Friday. 

The report names 39 individuals whose actions following the 2020 presidential election were investigated over an alleged effort to subvert the state’s election results and keep Trump in the White House.

While only 19 people were ultimately charged, the report offers insight into the sweeping investigation by Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D), laying out a roadmap to the 41-count indictment handed up last month. 

Here are five takeaways from the full special grand jury report.

Trump recommendations not unanimous

None of the charging recommendations against Trump were unanimous, the report revealed.

For each of the 10 recommendations to charge the former president, one dissenting vote was recorded; between 17 and 20 jurors voted to recommend indictment each time.

A few abstentions were also recorded for the various votes.

“The Georgia Grand Jury report has just been released,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social. “It has ZERO credibility and badly taints Fani Willis and this whole political Witch Hunt.”

 

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Takeaway #6

 

Special grand jury recommended charging right-wing lawyer Lin Wood. The special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, recommended charges against right-wing lawyer Lin Wood, who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He did not end up facing charges, and he has denied wrongdoing.

 

Wood, a veteran Atlanta-area defense attorney who later embraced pro-Trump conspiracy theories, was involved in a handful of meritless lawsuits in 2020 that unsuccessfully tried to overturn the election in Georgia and elsewhere. State election officials described his election claims as “disinformation.”  

 

Back in July, Wood gave up his law license in an apparent move to stave off disciplinary proceedings tied to his attempts to overturn the election.

 

TRIVIA ITEM: Lin Wood was Vernon Unsworth's lead attorney in the defamation case against Elon Musk over the Chiang Rai cave rescue..

4 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Takeaway #6

 

Special grand jury recommended charging right-wing lawyer Lin Wood. The special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, recommended charges against right-wing lawyer Lin Wood, who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He did not end up facing charges, and he has denied wrongdoing.

 

Wood, a veteran Atlanta-area defense attorney who later embraced pro-Trump conspiracy theories, was involved in a handful of meritless lawsuits in 2020 that unsuccessfully tried to overturn the election in Georgia and elsewhere. State election officials described his election claims as “disinformation.”  

 

Back in July, Wood gave up his law license in an apparent move to stave off disciplinary proceedings tied to his attempts to overturn the election.

 

TRIVIA ITEM: Lin Wood was Vernon Unsworth's lead attorney in the defamation case against Elon Musk over the Chiang Rai cave rescue..

One minor correction.

 

The route to Prosecution in case of a Special Grand Jury is:

 

Evidence/Testimony -> Special Grand Jury -> Indictment Recommendation -> Prosecutor Review -> Evidence/Testimony-> Grand Jury -> Indictment -> Prosecutor Review -> Prosecution.

 

The special Grand Jury does not hand down the prosecution indictment 

OOPS my error. I forgot to put in the link to the CNN article which I posted verbatim except for the TRIVIA comment:

 

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-georgia-indictment-09-08-23/h_159be1a32b9c0cc1c6a162627ff2a34f#:~:text=Special grand jury recommended charging right-wing lawyer Lin Wood&text=The special grand jury in,and he has denied wrongdoing.

Edited September 9, 20232 yr by jerrymahoney

Almost certainly more to come.

 

Get the RICO done first, then circle back around for the enablers.

 

 

34 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Takeaway #6

 

Special grand jury recommended charging right-wing lawyer Lin Wood. The special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, recommended charges against right-wing lawyer Lin Wood, who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He did not end up facing charges, and he has denied wrongdoing.

 

Wood, a veteran Atlanta-area defense attorney who later embraced pro-Trump conspiracy theories, was involved in a handful of meritless lawsuits in 2020 that unsuccessfully tried to overturn the election in Georgia and elsewhere. State election officials described his election claims as “disinformation.”  

 

Back in July, Wood gave up his law license in an apparent move to stave off disciplinary proceedings tied to his attempts to overturn the election.

 

TRIVIA ITEM: Lin Wood was Vernon Unsworth's lead attorney in the defamation case against Elon Musk over the Chiang Rai cave rescue..

Talk about burying the lede. Just like the headline writer of this piece. Other venues reported it like this:

Fulton County special grand jury recommended charges against Lindsey Graham, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/politics/fulton-county-special-grand-jury-report/index.html

 

My post was merely to denote the notoriety of Lin Wood as Vernon Unsworth's defamation attorney. Wood was also the attorney for Richard Jewell in the Atlanta Olympic bombing case which made him famous.

 

And again that article was posted verbatim with zero changes from me.