Georgia grand jury has seen a flurry of high-profile witnesses as the panel is set to decide whether or not to recommend charges against former president Donald Trump.
The grand jury began probing Trump, 76, after a 2021 phone call between him and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, 67, leaked. On the infamous call the then president asked Raffensperger to find nearly 12,000 votes to secure him victory in the state.
The special grand jury has interviewed several high-profile Trump allies, including former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Michael Flynn, and Lindsey Graham, among others.
Now, as it's nearing its end, the jury is expected to write a report determining whether or not it will recommend charges against Trump. The 23 citizens on the panel cannot issue indictments themselves, but will give recommendations to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the investigation.
Willis began investigating Trump following the January 2, 2021, phone call, where Trump told Raffensperger: 'So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have...
'So tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this.'
Raffensperger declined to 'find' any extra ballots.
The Secretary of State certified Biden's win, then counted the ballots an additional three times before the January call.
Biden, 80, was the first Democrat to win the state of Georgia since 1992 - a vote that was verified after two recounts and a partial forensic audit, both conducted by Raffensperger.
Willis has gone to great lengths to talk to Trump's inner circle and prevailed in many legal challenges to subpoenas.
'What these witnesses have in common is that they offer, for the district attorney, real potential for tying Donald Trump personally to what happened,' Clark D. Cunningham, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, told the Wall Street Journal.
In addition to the phone call, Willis' probe also expanded to include 16 alternate electors that signed fake documents that declared Trump the winner. The alternate electors argue they have done no wrong and were only paving a pathway to declare Trump the winner.