During the call, former President Trump tried to pressure Georgia House Speaker Ralston into calling a special legislative session to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state, according to the special grand jury’s foreperson.
and Georgia House Speaker David Ralston as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, the jury's foreperson, Emily Kohrs, told NBC News on Wednesday.
The grand jury, which conducted a criminal investigation into whether Trump and his allies made any “coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections” in the state,Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled last month that. McBurney also said in the ruling that the report includes recommendations for “who should be indicted, and for what,” but those parts would remain sealed for now.
“[W]hile publication may not be convenient for the pacing of the district attorney’s investigation, the compelling public interest in these proceedings and the unquestionable value and importance of transparency require their release,” McBurney wrote.In unsealed parts of the report released last month, grand jurors said they“A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” said a section of the report released last month.
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