Trump is set to go to trial in New York in March to face state charges related to hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. If Trump is indicted by a Georgia grand jury, it would add to a growing list of legal troubles as he campaigns for president. One of two grand juries seated July 11 is expected to hear the case. Willis has strongly hinted that any indictment would come between Monday and Aug. He is claiming without evidence that widespread voter fraud is already taking place, that Trump winning is the only legitimate outcome to the election, and that Trump should take draconian measures on the basis of a condition Stone says has already been met.ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia prosecutor is expected to seek a grand jury indictment in the coming weeks in her investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his Republican allies to overturn the then-president’s 2020 election loss.įulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began investigating more than two years ago, shortly after a recording was released of a January 2021 phone call Trump made to Georgia’s secretary of state. Media should not fall for Stone’s attempts to dismiss the extremism of his comments. Stone has also followed up on his martial law comments by suggesting that he may undertake an effort to “monitor” the 2020 elections in 2016, an election monitoring initiative he headed called Stop the Steal was hit with lawsuits over allegations of voter intimidation, in one case yielding an injunction against the group. The lawyers are going to try to block it, try to hold the election, but they said maybe after a few days they believe the Supreme Court is going to come in and veto these Democrat-Soros attempts to drag this out for months fraudulently.” Jones often claims to be in contact with White House officials and sometimes Trump himself. He said, “I talked to one of Trump’s top people yesterday morning, he called me, and he said that they’re optimistic and they believe that there is going to be fraud. Jones also claimed he had talked to a top White House official about election strategy, and he suggested voter fraud was being backed by liberal philanthropist George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic smears and conspiracy theories from the far right. I did not say the president should invoke martial law if he lost an honest election.” Stone said, “I’m really really shocked at the way the mainstream media bastardized my comments, took them out of context, ignored that I said that the Insurrection Act and martial law could be used only if there was blatant and flagrant evidence of fraud. Responding to outrage over his martial law comments, Stone appeared on the September 17 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show to claim that the media had taken him out of context. Stone used baseless claims about voter fraud to offer other suggestions to Trump, including having the president order FBI agents and Republican state officials to “physically” block voting, and using the Insurrection Act or a declaration of martial law to carry out widespread arrests of individuals supposedly engaged in voter fraud. Indeed, Stone claimed without evidence that voter fraud was already taking place in absentee voting in Nevada, which he blamed on “illegals,” and said that Trump should order federal authorities to seize both the absentee and in-person ballots submitted in that state. After Trump confidant Roger Stone drew widespread attention for advising President Donald Trump to declare martial law after Election Day, he has continued to promote conspiracy theories about Democrats stealing the election to justify Trump taking draconian actions to stay in office.ĭuring a September 10 appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Stone - a recent recipient of clemency from Trump following his conviction on multiple felony counts - claimed that the only legitimate outcome of the 2020 election would be a Trump victory, and that if Trump is not declared the winner, that will mean widespread voter fraud has taken place to steal the election.
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