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Read Testimony Heard by the Trump Grand Jury in Fulton County
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/testimony-heard-by-the-trump-grand-jury-in-fulton-countyWhen Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote to the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court in January 2022, her letter contained an extraordinary request: to convene a so-called "special purpose grand jury" to investigate whether a former president and his allies had illegally meddled in Georgia's 2020 presidential election.
That spring, with the court's approval, nearly two dozen Fulton County residents were sworn in to serve on the special purpose grand jury. Over the course of the next eight months, they met in secret on the third floor of a government building in downtown Atlanta. There, behind closed doors, the grand jurors heard testimony from more than 60 witnesses, including election workers who had been harassed and threatened, prominent Trump allies who had participated in efforts to reverse the election results, and high-ranking state officials who had resisted pressure from the president to change Georgia's electoral outcome.
For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view.
Today, Lawfare is publishing 61 transcripts and excerpts of testimony heard by the Fulton County special purpose grand jury. The documents, obtained by Lawfare, were part of the investigative file assembled in the sweeping racketeering case that Willis ultimately brought against Donald J. Trump and 18 co-defendants in August 2023. The case faltered in 2024 after the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis from the prosecution. A newly appointed prosecutor subsequently declined to pursue the charges.
Following dismissal of the case, the presiding judge, Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court, lifted a protective order that had prohibited lawyers involved in the case from disclosing certain materials produced during discovery.
The grand jury transcripts offer the most detailed insight yet into the evidence that Willis’s office would have presented against Trump and his co-defendants had the case reached trial. Among the documents published today are transcripts of testimony given by Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina; Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who refused Trump's entreaties to “find” 11,780 votes; Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor who refused Trump’s request to convene a special legislative session to reconsider the state's election results; and Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who was indicted alongside Trump.
Some details from the grand jury testimony have previously been reported by various media outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as in Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman’s book, “Find Me The Votes.” But the transcripts published here represent the first time the verbatim record of these proceedings has been made available to the public.
In the coming weeks, Lawfare will publish additional reporting and analysis based on the documents released today. Until then, the transcripts allow readers to examine for themselves what witnesses said under oath about an alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn a democratic election—and the role the current president allegedly played in orchestrating it.
That spring, with the court's approval, nearly two dozen Fulton County residents were sworn in to serve on the special purpose grand jury. Over the course of the next eight months, they met in secret on the third floor of a government building in downtown Atlanta. There, behind closed doors, the grand jurors heard testimony from more than 60 witnesses, including election workers who had been harassed and threatened, prominent Trump allies who had participated in efforts to reverse the election results, and high-ranking state officials who had resisted pressure from the president to change Georgia's electoral outcome.
For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view.
Today, Lawfare is publishing 61 transcripts and excerpts of testimony heard by the Fulton County special purpose grand jury. The documents, obtained by Lawfare, were part of the investigative file assembled in the sweeping racketeering case that Willis ultimately brought against Donald J. Trump and 18 co-defendants in August 2023. The case faltered in 2024 after the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis from the prosecution. A newly appointed prosecutor subsequently declined to pursue the charges.
Following dismissal of the case, the presiding judge, Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court, lifted a protective order that had prohibited lawyers involved in the case from disclosing certain materials produced during discovery.
The grand jury transcripts offer the most detailed insight yet into the evidence that Willis’s office would have presented against Trump and his co-defendants had the case reached trial. Among the documents published today are transcripts of testimony given by Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina; Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who refused Trump's entreaties to “find” 11,780 votes; Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor who refused Trump’s request to convene a special legislative session to reconsider the state's election results; and Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who was indicted alongside Trump.
Some details from the grand jury testimony have previously been reported by various media outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as in Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman’s book, “Find Me The Votes.” But the transcripts published here represent the first time the verbatim record of these proceedings has been made available to the public.
In the coming weeks, Lawfare will publish additional reporting and analysis based on the documents released today. Until then, the transcripts allow readers to examine for themselves what witnesses said under oath about an alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn a democratic election—and the role the current president allegedly played in orchestrating it.
Link to transcripts
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/testimony-heard-by-the-trump-grand-jury-in-fulton-county#transcripts