The 16 Republicans who submitted false documents claiming to be official Georgia electors and that Donald Trump won the state’s election have been notified they could be prosecuted for their actions.
In a court filing Tuesday, 11 of the fake GOP electors, including party chairman David Shafer, filed a motion seeking to halt future testimony, have the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from prosecuting them and that any report be held under embargo or seal until after the midterm elections.
The Republicans write in their motion that originally the electors were considered witnesses in the ongoing probe of potential crimes committed in the failed effort to overturn the 2020 election, but on June 28, prosecutors notified them that “as our investigation has matured and new evidence has come to light” that they were now targets of the election probe.
State Sen. Burt Jones, the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor and also a fake elector, is apparently a target of the investigation as well. Jones has also filed a motion to have Willis disqualified as the prosecutor. A judge has scheduled a hearing on that motion for Thursday.
Jones argues that Willis, a Democrat, is pursuing an investigation against him to benefit his opponent, Charlie Bailey, in the midterm election. Willis recently held a fundraiser for Bailey.
Willis wrote in response that Jones was not singled out based on his campaign and that she should not be removed from the investigation.
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