“I have 182 unsolved murders involving 222 accused,” she said. ‘I have a security unit backed up. But I am very much able to identify great people to work in this office who dedicate themselves to the cause of making this province safer, and I am not left in my duty because I have other responsibilities. ‘
Clark D. Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said it appears that Ms. Willis may put an end to the Trump case, “because of the variety of crimes in that letter,” he said, adding, “and especially the talk of hooliganism and conspiracy.”
The pressure campaign to reverse the election results in Georgia began on November 13 when Mr. Graham, a Trump ally from South Carolina, brought a call to Mr. Raffensperger, Georgia’s Secretary of State. Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican, later said Graham asked him if he had the power to cast all revenue votes from certain provinces, a proposal the Secretary of State refused. (Graham disputes Mr Raffensperger’s report.)
On December 3, Mr. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, appeared before a Senate committee in Georgia and said there was more than enough evidence to conclude this election, and these are a number of false allegations. . Two days later, Mr. Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has called to press him to convene a special session of the legislature to block the election. Mr. Trump then called Republican Attorney General Chris Carr and urged him not to oppose a legitimate attempt to challenge the election results in Georgia and other swing states.
Because of the spate of Trump calls, Mrs. Willis said she believes she is the only official with jurisdiction who does not have a conflict of interest. As she wrote in her letters to other public officials, “this office is the one agency with jurisdiction that is not a witness to the conduct that is the subject of the investigation.”
Even after Mr. Raffensperger reaffirmed the election results on Dec. 7, sharpening Trump’s efforts. Three days later, Mr. Giuliani practically testified before a State House committee, repeating false allegations that voting workers in an arena in Atlanta counted improper ballots tucked in suitcases while merely using the normal storage containers. “They seem to be dying out of stupidity,” he said during the trial.
Gabriel Sterling, a leading assistant to Mr. Raffensperger, dismissed the claims as a ridiculous, ” Oceans 11 ” type scheme, saying, “It was thoroughly dismissed.”