The recent indictments against former President Donald Trump have been “giving oxygen to his campaigns” to return to the White House, according to a Georgia election official.
Gabriel Sterling, who currently serves as the chief operating officer at the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, made the comments amid reports that Presidents Trump may face a new indictment related to the alleged interference in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Potential Indictment
There have been reports indicating that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may charge the former president and his allies regarding alleged attempts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020 this week. Her office has not made any public announcements about the case.“I can confirm that I have been requested to testify before the Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday. I look forward to answering their questions around the 2020 election,” Mr. Duncan, a Republican, wrote in a social media post.
“Republicans should never let honesty be mistaken for weakness,” he added.
Meanwhile, Georgia journalist George Chidi also announced that he was asked to testify on Tuesday.
Mr. Sterling said he didn’t know “what’s going to be in the case in Fulton County yet.”
But he insisted former president Trump lost the state in 2020.
“One of things that we’ve learned and public reporting on this is he requested there were two independent audits and verifications by outside groups. And both these paid $600,000. And both them said, there was no fraud. You lost the state,” he said. “We’ve been saying this over and over again, we counted the ballots three times. He lost the state, and it continued to say he didn’t lose it. ”
“Anybody talking about 2020 election is going to lose the general election. You’re not gaining any voters by doing that.”
When asked whether he received the call to testify, Mr. Sterling didn’t directly answer but added he had testified for a special grand jury.
“My lawyers haven’t said I can talk too much about this one way or the other,” he said. “But if I am called when I am called, I will go and do what I did before, I will tell the truth answer honestly, that’s all we can do in this situation.”
Trump’s Response
Despite the legal setbacks he is facing, the former chief executive remains a front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. In April, after he was charged by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, President Trump even stretched his lead against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his main rival in the party’s primaries.He told Ms. Willis to focus on what he called a surging homicide rate in Atlanta.
“Why is ‘Phoney’ (Like in PERFECT ‘PHONE’ CALL, get it?) Fani Willis, the severely underperforming D.A. of Fulton County who is being accused of having an ‘affair’ with a Gang Member of a group that she is prosecuting, leaking my name in regard to a Grand Jury pertaining to Election Fraud & Irregularities that I say took place in Georgia,” President Trump wrote in a separate post-Sunday morning.
