Report: Willis to present Trump case to grand jury next week

With charges looming, Trump launches personal attacks against Willis

Donald Trump and Fani Willis

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor who has been investigating the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, is preparing to present the case to a grand jury.

Several media outlets reported Tuesday that Willis plans to ask a grand jury to return indictments in the case as early as next week.

The investigation was first launched in January 2021, after Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the former President frantically urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes so that he could win Georgia.

Willis’ office has since been gathering witnesses and interviewing witnesses, with help from a special grand jury. Among the witnesses have been Raffensperger, Gov. Brian Kemp and several of the former President’s lawyers and closest allies.

Trump’s legal team has been gearing up for a possible indictment. They have filed several long-shot motions to have Willis removed from the case and to discard all evidence that has been gathered. Each motion has been denied. Trump himself has also weighed in on the investigation, launching personal attacks on Willis.

Willis had previously signaled that indictments would be coming in August. Most of her office has been working from home this month and security around the Fulton County Courthouse has increased in recent days. “We've been working for two and a half years — we're ready to go,” she told 11Alive last week.

An indictment in Georgia will only add to the former President’s growing list of legal troubles as he mounts a third run for the White House. He is facing federal charges in two special counsel investigations, one for mishandling classified documents and one for his actions leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack. He has also been indicted in a New York hush money case.

But his legal charges aren’t hurting his standing with Republican primary voters. If anything, they are only making him stronger: he remains the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican nomination, holding wide leads in both national and state-by-state polling.

Trump recently quipped that another indictment is all he needs to secure his return to the White House. “We need one more indictment to close out this election,” he said at a campaign event in Alabama. “One more indictment, and this election is closed out.”