(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team gets their interview with GA Secretary of State Raffensperger [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-27 Darn that cabal, More indictments in the offing. Folks need to relax, Even Rome, New York wasn’t built in a day. A key area of interest is the conduct of a handful of lawyers who sought to turn Trump’s defeat into victory by trying to convince state, local, federal and judicial authorities that Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was illegitimate or tainted by fraud. Each track poses potential legal peril for those under scrutiny, but also raises tricky questions about where the line should be drawn between political activity, legal advocacy and criminal conspiracy. The Justice Department’s investigation of efforts by Donald Trump and his advisers to overturn the 2020 election results is barreling forward on multiple tracks, according to people familiar with the matter, with prosecutors focused on ads and fundraising pitches claiming election fraud as well as plans for “fake electors” that would swing the election to the incumbent president. This tells me Smith is likely to ask a grand jury to indict the whole criminal gang that conspired to overturn the presidential election and overthrow the government. That includes Trump at the wheel’s center and his corrupt fellow seditionists and insurrectionists as its spokes: https://t.co/0OJSTcYTbr The interview session had been delayed several times at the request of Smith’s office. Raffensperger was previously interviewed by the House committee that investigated Jan. 6 and in front of a grand jury as part of the state-level probe in Georgia, which is being led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis . Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — whom Trump called after the election , asking if he could find enough votes to overcome Biden’s margin of victory in the state — is scheduled to be interviewed by investigators with Smith’s office on Wednesday in Atlanta, a spokesperson for Raffensperger’s office said. The Trump campaign paid $600k to outside researchers to prove election fraud. In a conference call in Dec. 2020, they told Trump no such fraud occurred. The Trump-Raffensperger call came Jan. 2. https://t.co/hkNdcV3Mj7 01 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the closure of an investigation into claims of fraud made by former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, after the DA’s office found no evidence that would substantiate the claims. “Over the course of the investigation, it was confirmed that numerous allegations made against the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, and specifically, two election workers, were false and unsubstantiated,” Raffensberg’s office wrote in a press release. [...] There are two concurrent investigations into Trump’s efforts to obstruct the transfer of power following his election loss. One is being conducted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who earlier this month charged Trump with criminal mishandling of classified documents. The second is directly centered on the former president’s actions in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Trump and his allies actions in Georgia, and has signaled that she could bring an indictment of her own this summer. www.rollingstone.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/27/2177896/-Special-Counsel-Jack-Smith-s-team-gets-their-interview-with-GA-Secretary-of-State-Raffensperger Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/