When a Georgia court unsealed the grand jury report on the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the first name on its recommended indictments was predictable: President Donald Trump.
It’s the second name on the list that jumped out: Cleta Mitchell.
The grand jury recommended charging Mitchell for soliciting election fraud, witness interference, making false statements, and a host of other offenses.
As a Trump adviser and election attorney, Mitchell played a central role in the effort to stop the certification of the election in Georgia and beyond. She was one of the principal players on the infamous call in which Trump implored Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find the 11,780 votes he needed to claim victory. And Mitchell brought lawyer John Eastman in to support the fringe legal theory that state legislatures could override the will of their voters. “A movement is stirring,” she wrote to Eastman. “But needs constitutional support.”
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Yet, when Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis unveiled her sprawling RICO case against Trump last month, Mitchell wasn’t one of the 19 people facing charges.
The district attorney was under no obligation to follow the grand jury’s recommendations. Willis’s office did not respond to a request for comment, and legal experts can only theorize why Willis didn’t charge Mitchell.
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