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Georgia Transcripts Show GOP Leaders Privately Rejected Trump’s 2020 Overturn Efforts

The New York Times has made public sworn 2022 testimony from Georgia’s special grand jury that informed the state election‑interference probe.

Overview

  • Transcripts obtained and published by the New York Times reveal secret testimony from the 2022 special purpose grand jury in Fulton County’s election‑interference investigation.
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham told jurors he found Trump’s fraud claims “unnerving,” said he had no doubt Joe Biden won Georgia, and quipped that Trump would believe “Martians” stole votes.
  • Gov. Brian Kemp testified that pressuring Georgia lawmakers to intervene in the 2020 results was a “fruitless exercise.”
  • Former Georgia House Speaker David Ralston called the fake‑elector plan “the craziest thing I’ve heard.”
  • The disclosures surface as Trump again revisits his 2020 loss, expresses regret about not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines, and promotes banning voting machines and mail ballots.