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Georgia Prosecutor Targeting Trump Bases Court Filing On Fake News

Fani Willis’s own court filings against President Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Republicans reveal her investigation is a sham because its ‘central focus’ rests on a lie.

A Georgia county prosecutor falsely claimed in a federal court filing last week that Donald Trump requested the Georgia secretary of state “‘find 11,780 votes’ in the former President’s favor.” This falsehood exposes the Fulton County district attorney’s “grand jury” investigation and her targeting of Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Republicans as a sham.

In the response brief she filed last Thursday in support of the special purpose grand jury’s subpoena of Graham, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a Georgia federal court that “a central focus” of her investigation into the 2020 election “is former President Donald Trump’s January 2, 2021, telephone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger requesting that the Secretary ‘find 11,780 votes’ in the former President’s favor.”

With that opening paragraph, the Fulton County Democrat revealed the hoax of an investigation she is running. Trump did not request that Raffensperger “find 11,780 votes.” Period. It never happened.

Rather, during the January 2, 2021, telephone conversation between Trump’s legal team and the secretary of state’s office, Trump’s lawyer explained to Raffensperger that “the court is not acting on our petition. They haven’t even assigned a judge,” and that “the people of Georgia and the people of America have a right to know the answers.”

During that call, Trump and his lawyers ticked off the numerous categories of illegal votes of which they had concrete evidence—some 25 categories. Trump had challenged those votes in the petition referenced by his attorney, but the court delayed the proceedings, which is why the legal team asked the secretary of state’s office to investigate the problem.

Further, as the transcript of the conversation confirmed, Trump’s legal team told Raffensperger that it had solid evidence of illegal votes easily exceeding the official margin of Biden’s victory of 11,779. Under Georgia election law, if the “evidence establishe[s] that there are more illegal or irregular votes than the margin of victory, the remedy is a new election,” which is why Trump focused on his need to find 11,800 votes throughout his conversation with Raffensperger.

Trump repeated that refrain several times during the call, stating, “I have to find 12,000 votes and I have them times a lot. And therefore, I won the state.” Not once during their conversation did Trump ask Raffensperger “‘to find 11,780 votes’ in the former President’s favor.” Rather, Trump spoke of his own desire “to find 11,780 votes,” and did so in the context of highlighting the tens of thousands of illegal votes for which his legal team had ample evidence and they asked merely that the secretary of state review their evidence of illegal voting.

That appeal to the secretary of state came because Fulton County Chief Judge Chris Brasher failed to appoint a judge eligible to hear Trump’s election contest for a month. Ironically, the same Judge Brasher had authorized Willis’s special purpose grand jury investigation, with Willis claiming the January 2, 2021, telephone call to Raffensperger—necessitated by Judge Brasher’s delay tactics—represents “a central focus” of her investigation.

Willis’ “special purpose grand jury,” however, is one in name only, lacking the power to indict and instead only authorized to issue a report. Nonetheless, the county prosecutor proceeded to seek subpoenas for...

Former President Donald Trump said Monday evening his home had been raided by a “large group of FBI agents.”

“Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before,” Trump said in a statement. “After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”

Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, is located in Palm Beach, Florida. Florida’s governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, tweeted that the raid was an “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves.”

“Such an assault could only take place in broken, third-world countries,” Trump added. “Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?”

The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, reported that the raid was done because of concerns Trump had classified material at his home. Trump reportedly had brought boxes to Mar-a-Lago containing “many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.”

In his statement, the former president argued that his 2016 political rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been treated differently. “Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 e-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress,” Trump said. “Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable.”

In a 2016 debate with Trump, Clinton said the deleted emails “were personal emails and not official.”

Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, said in a statement that the Justice Department had “reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”

The California Republican added, “When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts and leave no stone unturned.”

Other Republican lawmakers also reacted on Twitter:

“The raid on Mar-a-Lago represents yet another example of the federal government weaponizing law enforcement to punish political enemies, silence critics, and send a message to...