Trump Cancels Plan To Release ‘Irrefutable’ Evidence About Georgia ‘Election Fraud’ Following Lawyers’ Advice
Topline
Former President Donald Trump Thursday said he has dropped plans to release what he claims is “irrefutable” evidence of “election fraud” in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election following advice from his lawyers, days after he was charged by the state related to efforts to overturn the results, and after the state’s Republican governor pushed back on Trump’s baseless claims.
Key Facts
Earlier in the week, Trump responded to his indictment in the Georgia election interference case with a post on Truth Social, vowing to release what he claimed was a “detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia,” an allegation that has never been substantiated, in a press conference this coming Monday.
On Thursday evening, Trump said he is calling off the press conference following advice from his attorneys and they plan to submit this supposed evidence as part of his legal filings in the Georgia case.
Calling the Georgia indictment “disgraceful”, Trump continued his practice of attacking prosecutors by going after Fulton County DA Fani Willis, calling her “publicity & campaign finance seeking” and claiming she presides over “record breaking Murder & Violent Crime.”
News Peg
Trump’s claim that he was in possession of “irrefutable” evidence of election fraud in Georgia was immediately rejected by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday. Kemp wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the “2020 election in Georgia was not stolen,” adding that it has been nearly three years since the end of the elections and “anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law.”
Key Background
On Monday, Trump and 18 other co-defendants were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury for allegedly participating in an expansive scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections in Georgia—one of the swing states won by President Joe Biden. The indictment alleges that Trump and his accomplices “refused to accept” his loss and then “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” Despite their repeated claims, Trump and his aides have failed to produce any compelling evidence that widespread election fraud in Georgia cost him the state in the 2020 elections.
