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Fani Willis has the receipts: Trump team tied to voter machine breach. [1]

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Date: 2023-08-13  

A CNN exclusive is revealing some bombshell news: Georgia prosecutors are in possession of text messages and emails that directly tie members of Trump’s legal team to efforts to gain unauthorized access to voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, in the weeks before January 6th.

Even more fun: one of those tied to the effort is none other than Rudy Giuliani. Shocking, right?

The messages and documents appear to link Giuliani to the Coffee County breach, while shedding light on another channel of communication between pro-Trump attorneys and the battleground state operatives who worked together to provide unauthorized individuals access to sensitive voting equipment. “Rudy Giuliani had nothing to do with this,” said Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney. “You can’t attach Rudy Giuliani to Sidney Powell’s crackpot idea.” “Just landed back in DC with the Mayor huge things starting to come together!” an employee from the firm Sullivan Strickler, which was hired by Sidney Powell to examine voting systems in Coffee County, wrote in a group chat with other colleagues on January 1. Former New York Mayor Giuliani was consistently referred to as “the Mayor,” in other texts sent by the same individual and others at the time. “Most immediately, we were just granted access – by written invitation! – to Coffee County’s systems. Yay!” the text reads.

This is big, because it ties members of Trump’s inner circle to an illegal effort to gain access to voting machines. And what are the odds that if members of his inner circle were working on this, that Trump didn’t know about it?

Here’s just a bit more from the article, that references an Oval Office meeting that indicates that yes, indeed, the Great Pumpkin did know about this:

Text messages and other documents obtained by CNN show Trump allies were seeking access to Coffee County’s voting system by mid-December amid increasing demands for proof of widespread election fraud. Coffee County was specifically cited in draft executive orders for seizing voting machines that were presented to Trump on December 18, 2020, during a chaotic Oval Office meeting, CNN has reported. During that same meeting, Giuliani alluded to a plan to gain “voluntary access” to machines in Georgia, according to testimony from him and others before the House January 6 committee.

It’s expected that Fani Willis’ folks will be dropping indictments like Thanksgiving Turkeys next week and will be proffering charges against a number of people from local Georgians to...well, presumably Trump himself.

Edit: I’d like to take a second to point folks to KeithDB’s excellent diary currently on the Rec List, The Willis Indictments: Who Gets Charged. KeithDB references not only this article and aspect of potential upcoming indictments, but others as well.

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