(New York Post) Georgia prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state are in possession of text messages and other communications that directly tie members of the former president’s legal team –including Rudy Giuliani — to a Jan. 7, 2021 voting systems breach, according to a Sunday report.
The messages could play a central part in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ grand jury presentation this week in connection with her election fraud case against the 77-year-old current GOP presidential frontrunner, who has already faced three criminal indictment this years.
“Just landed back in DC with the Mayor huge things starting to come together! Most immediately, we were just granted access — by written invitation! — to Coffee County’s systems. Yay!” reads a Jan. 1, 2021 text message in a group chat of colleagues from Sullivan Strickler, the law firm hired by Trump’s team to examine the voting systems in the heavily Republican county, CNN reported.
Trump’s then-lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was referred to as “the Mayor” in other messages sent by the same group, the outlet said.
Texts and other documents suggest that Trump’s team was scrambling for access to voting systems in the rural, mostly Republican county as early as mid-December, the report continued.
Text messages and other documents reportedly implicate former President Donald Trump’s legal team in the Coffee County, Georgia, voting system breach.AFP via Getty Images
The messages could play a central part in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ grand jury presentation this week in connection with her election fraud case against Trump.AP
The letter of invitation was supposedly penned by Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections official who first piqued the interest of Trump’s cronies in the days after the election when she incorrectly claimed that Dominion voting machines could “very easily” flip votes from one candidate to another.
Desperate to delay certification of Joe Biden’s victory, a Trump campaign official emailed Hampton and asked to “obtain as much information as possible” about the voting situation in the county, which Trump won by 70%, CNN said.
In early December, Hampton delayed the certification of Biden’s win in the Peach State by refusing to recount results by the deadline.
A video Hampton made purportedly alerting the public to issues with the county’s voting machines was also used by Giuliani and Trump’s other lawyers in their push to convince other state legislators that the 2020 election results were marred by voter fraud.
Coffee County was name dropped in a draft of executive orders to seize voting machines that was presented to Trump at an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, according to the article.
The sheriff’s office in Fulton County implemented security measures ahead of DA Fani Willis’ possibly seeking an indictment against Donald Trump and his allies concerning the 2020 election in Georgia.AP
At the time, Giuliani also allegedly hinted at plans to gain “voluntary access” to Georgia voting machines, he and others previously testified before the House Jan. 6 committee.
A few days after the pivotal Oval Office meeting, CNN explained, Hampton shared the written invitation to access Coffee County’s election office with the Trump team.
Katherine Freiss, another attorney working with Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and other Trump cronies, reportedly distributed the invitation to a group of Trump allies on Jan. 1, 2021 – just a few days before the breach.
That same day, Freiss also reportedly sent the invite to disgraced former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who had teamed up with his former boss Giuliani to back up their claims of voter fraud.
Hampton and elections official Cathy Latham then allegedly helped Trump’s team access the Coffee County voting system, the messages reviewed by the outlet indicated.
