Lawyers of the former president United States of America Donald Trump (2017-2021) tried to seize “sensitive” election data It was removed from the ballot counting machines after the 2020 election, published Monday by the Washington Post. Saying that it has access to documents to prove it, the newspaper said that Trump’s lawyers led a team of computer experts to copy the data Exmandatario representatives of electoral systems in key states like Georgia, Nevada, and Michigan paid computer scientists $26,000 upfront in one case.
The Post describes how attorney Sidney Powell sent a team to Michigan to copy election data from a rural county and Detroit area; another lawyer did the same for Nevada, and on January 7, 2021 – just after the attack on the Capitol – they were sent to South Georgia.
That same Monday, it was learned that Trump’s former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is being investigated in the state of Georgia for his involvement in the former president’s attempts to nullify the 2020 election, which he lost to current president Joe Biden. Giuliani will appear before a grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, whose conspiracy theories about alleged election interference in favor of Democrats are the subject of a criminal investigation led by Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis.
Since last May, a special grand jury has been held in Georgia. examines whether the former president and other persons committed a crime by putting pressure on politicians Also, this Monday, a federal judge dismissed Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s attempt to abstain from appearing before a special jury on August 23, when she had to testify to answer two people. His alleged phone calls with Georgia election officials.
In Georgia and other U.S. states, special grand juries cannot plead criminal charges, but they do have the power to summon witnesses and transfer documents in a confidential process. Such a jury of 16 to 23 people, at the end of their mandate, publishes a report with its results and sometimes recommends this or that measure, but it is up to the prosecutors to blame or not. something they have to present evidence to another grand jury.