Scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump is desperate to discredit the recent Georgia Special Grand Jury investigation and subsequent report that’s been released, in a heavily redacted version, in recent weeks — so much so that the ex-president seemed to possibly accidentally admit that there was no widespread election fraud running rampant through the Peach State as he’s been claiming since the moment he lost GA to Joe Biden.
Late last week, on the heels of the newly-released, heavily-redacted report, former President Trump made a seemingly split-second, impulse decision to publicly peddle a screenshot of a tweet by Politico’s Kyle Cheney — in a post on his struggling Truth Social account — which was part of an in-depth thread by Cheney, dissecting the information that was contained in the limited and heavily redacted excerpts recently released from the Fulton County Grand Jury’s final report into Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election in the southern swing state. The grand jury was tasked by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate Trump along with his inner circle to determine if they illegally worked to overturn Biden’s win — based largely on Trump’s infamous call with GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which then outgoing-president demanded that the GA state official “find” the nearly 12,000 votes Trump needed to swing the state back into his favor.
Since his 2020 loss, Donald Trump and some of his key allies have relentlessly pushed the thoroughly debunked claim that Donald only lost the state of Georgia because it was “stolen” from him via extensive voter and election fraud in the state. Yet, as he desperately grasps for a way to shut this grand jury investigation down, Trump publicly propped up Cheney’s tweet, in which the political reporter clearly wrote “there was no widespread fraud in Georgia.”
As part of a larger thread on the redacted report, Cheney wrote on Twitter, “There’s very little here. The special grand jury heard from 75 witnesses and concluded there was no widespread fraud in Georgia. The special grand jury believes one or more witnesses perjured themselves. That’s it.”
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Donald Trump posted a screenshot of this tweet to his Truth Social account, inadvertently admitting that his claims of widespread voter fraud in the state of Georgia were nothing short of lies.
Cheney’s actual tweet, and subsequent thread on the matter, contains portions of the redacted grand jury report he was referencing in his post:
There’s very little here.
The special grand jury heard from 75 witnesses and concluded there was no widespread fraud in Georgia.
The special grand jury believes one or more witnesses perjured themselves.
That’s it.https://t.co/DqwHxmcKzb pic.twitter.com/IoomFmDfYd
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 16, 2023
Cheney clearly notes in his Twitter thread that the majority of the report remains under seal and unavailable to the public. However, he does point to one specific portion of the report that can be seen:
The Grand Jury heard extensive testimony on the subject of alleged election fraud from poll workers, investigators, technical experts, and State of Georgia employees and officials, as well as from persons still claiming that such fraud took place. We find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election.”
Cheney further notes that the jury has confirmed in recent days that several of the sworn witnesses who appeared before them likely lied under oath. The grand jury ultimately recommended charges be filed against a variety of individuals in the investigation, but the names of those individuals have not yet been released and remain under seal. Nevertheless, Trump was quick to peg these heavily redacted experts of the report as a “total exoneration” for himself.
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