A grand jury will hear the evidence prosecutors have been gathering against Donald Trump with regards to his attempt to change the outcome of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. Now prosecutors involved in that case have reportedly discovered evidence that a voting machine breach was part of a ploy by Trump’s legal team. All part of what they call a “top-down push” to illegally change the election results in the state. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00 The grand jury will soon hear the evidence prosecutors have been gathering against Donald
00:03 Trump with regards to his attempt to change the outcome of Georgia's 2020 presidential
00:08 election.
00:09 Now, CNN reports, prosecutors involved in that case have reportedly discovered evidence
00:14 that a voting machine breach was part of a ploy by Trump's legal team, all part of what
00:18 they call a top-down push to illegally change the election results in the state.
00:23 Lead investigator Fannie Willis will likely soon announce yet another indictment against
00:27 the former president, as well as others against at least a dozen of his allies.
00:31 The new evidence is based on a series of text messages between local Georgia election officials
00:36 who were involved in the 2022 voting system breach in the state.
00:40 That breach included video evidence of a private forensics team, which was hired by Trump's
00:44 lawyer Sidney Powell, who were seen copying data and handling voting machines on January
00:50 7, 2021.
00:51 Those voting machines were then replaced after the video surfaced.
00:55 That election official, who was identified as Misty Hampton, sent a text message with
00:59 a written invitation to Trump's legal team to have access to the voting machines just
01:03 six days ahead of the breach.
01:04 The text messages also mentioned Rudy Giuliani several times, calling him "the mayor," despite
01:10 his lawyer explicitly saying previously that he wasn't involved.
01:14 Hampton was one of the individuals who was apparently spreading Dominion voting system
01:17 conspiracies according to the report, eventually gaining the attention of Trump's team.
01:22 He was also the top election official in the only county which failed to validate recount
01:26 results by the deadline, and the only one that failed to certify the 2020 presidential
01:31 election.
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