Big test for Donald Trump, District Attorney Fannie Willis will open raw sheet of election fraud allegations

Washington: Former US President Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants, including his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and chief of staff Mark Meadows, will face the acid test on Monday as Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis opens the first blank slate on them. According to media reports, for the first time Americans will hear about four criminal cases brought against Trump this year and the subject of hearings – Meadows’ motion to transfer his case to a federal court in an effort to Strong arguments were given. But Meadows’ move could serve as a mini-trial that determines the future of Fulton County’s case against the former president.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump called on to get 11,000 votes to reverse Joe Biden’s victory in January 2021, has been called to his office to testify, along with an investigator and two other attorneys. who were present on the call. Meadows is a defendant in the case, as he was also present on the call. Trump has said that there is nothing wrong with his call, as he has the right to question the election verdict. Trump may try to delay the proceedings, set to begin at 1000 a.m. in Fulton County, in a last-ditch effort to prosecute the indictment as he faces criminal charges in four cases while running his third presidential campaign, a report said. are facing. His legal calendar looks quite murky and bleak, as trial dates have been fixed and proposed to move beyond May 2024.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to set a hearing date on Monday in the federal election sabotage case, as the former president seeks to delay proceedings until after the 2024 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team has proposed a January 2024 trial, including jury selection in early December. Trump’s legal team has rejected it on the grounds that Smith’s timeline conflicts with other criminal and civil cases in which the former president is a defendant. Trump’s team has proposed an alternative date of April 2026, long after the presidential election.

In the election sabotage case in Georgia’s Fulton County, two aides of the former president — voter fraud architect Kenneth Chesebro and attorney Sidney Powell — have requested expedited hearings, media reports said. The judge in Chesebro’s trial set the trial for October 23, and Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis attempted to force that date on all defendants in the case, including the former president. However, the judge made it clear that the trial date only applied to Chesebro. Trump’s lawyers have informed the judge of their objection to combining the former president’s case with Cheesebrough’s and have said they will seek to separate the two cases to avoid an expedited trial.

Two hearings are expected on Monday related to former President Trump’s alleged election interference — one in Fulton County District Attorney Willis’ case and the other related to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation. Both cases center on the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.