Sources for The Guardian have relayed an expectation that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will soon be bringing criminal charges in her investigation of Trump and various allies of his that relates to the meddling seen after the last presidential election that was meant to help Trump stay in power.
“Prosecutors are also expected to seek a criminal conspiracy charge, the people said,” according to that publication. The Guardian also shared a list of other potential charges that have reportedly been recently under consideration inside Willis’s team, and at multiple junctures, Trump could be implicated — again, considering he’s already been charged in two other criminal cases.
The list of other criminal acts that could be alleged in the probe include solicitation and conspiracy to commit election fraud along with solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and to destroy, deface or remove ballots, as The Guardian summarized it. The potential application of the allegation of soliciting a public official to fail in their job duties would connect to the infamous example of Trump having while still president called officials in Georgia amid a dash for action on the 2020 presidential race’s results. The potential charge related to meddling with ballots could cover Trump’s reported push for a top investigator in Georgia to take a special approach to examining the signatures with ballots that could have resulted in an unusually higher rate of rejection for the mail-in ballots Georgians submitted.
To finalize any charges, Willis would need to secure the approval of another grand jury after the jury that already participated in the investigation earlier and handled matters like gathering testimony. Trump initially claimed to have been essentially exonerated in the conclusions reached by that earlier jury, which prepared a final report recapping its findings and recommendations, but the bulk of the report from those jurors was not released publicly, making those claims dramatically premature.
