A Georgia elections official who in 2020 gave a fiery press conference rebuking former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the state's election results will testify Wednesday before a grand jury investigating whether Trump's actions broke the law.
Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, was the voting system implementation manager in Georgia during the 2020 election, which Trump lost. In press conferences on Dec. 1 of that year and Jan. 4, 2021, he harshly criticized Trump in response to what he said were false claims about voter fraud and threats to the state's election workers.
"Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence," Sterling implored on Dec. 1, 2020.
The following month, he said of Trump's claims: "This is all easily, provably false. Yet the president persists. By doing so, it undermines Georgia's faith in the electoral system."
Now, a year and a half later, Sterling is set to address the grand jury considering whether Trump should be charged for his behavior in the days and weeks following his 2020 loss in Georgia.
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