ATLANTA — A critical witness in a Georgia criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election said he is “emotionally torn” about the case, fearing that a potential prosecution could end up reinforcing the former president’s status as a “martyr.”
Gabriel Sterling, the chief operations officer for the Georgia secretary of state who angrily denounced Trump’s false claims of election fraud in December 2020, confirmed in an interview with Yahoo News that he met some months ago with two prosecutors and two investigators for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who grilled him about the state’s election procedures.
“They’re trying to figure out where Trump could think he has a leverage point, a point where he could manipulate the system potentially,” said Sterling.
It was the latest confirmation that Willis’s probe has been quietly active and ongoing for some time even as it is poised to soon find itself in the national spotlight. Willis has gotten approval to convene a special grand jury in May when witnesses like Sterling; his boss, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, among others, are expected to receive subpoenas to testify.
It is a probe that has taken on new significance nationally in light of the news that two top prosecutors in New York City who were working on a separate investigation into Trump’s finances have resigned, apparently after concluding that the newly elected...
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