ATLANTA — As another federal indictment was handed up against former President Donald Trump, a lot of the facts that are in the indictment are familiar to Channel 2 Action News viewers.
We’ve been reporting on much of what was laid out in the indictment since Trump lost the election here in Georgia in 2020.
A section of the federal criminal indictment against Trump is simply titled “Georgia.”
Prosecutors quote from that now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that the secretary of state offered the president a link to a video that would disprove false election claims.
“Mr. President we’ll send you the link from WSB that...” Raffensperger said before getting cut off by Trump.
“I don’t care about a link. I don’t need it. We’re going to have a much better link,” Trump said.
That section of the phone call was referencing our exclusive Channel 2 Action News investigation from 2020.
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Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray was the first person outside of state election investigators to review the full 24 hours of Election Day surveillance video from State Farm Arena.
In December 2020, we shared with Channel 2 viewers the video showing no evidence of suitcases full of ballots or ballot tampering.
That Channel 2 Action News investigation and that section of the phone call also got the attention a year ago of the special congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
Gray caught up with Fulton County Commission Chairman Rob Pitts on Wednesday, who said the new federal indictment vindicated Fulton County’s stance that the election was above board.
“Everything will come out in the wash, so to speak, as we move through the upcoming trial phase. But yeah, I really feel vindicated because I was on the scene during all the elections and all of the county so I know for a fact that our elections were open. They were fair and They were transparent and there was zero hanky-panky,” Pitts said.
Pitts also told Gray he has not personally been asked to testify before a grand jury by either federal prosecutors or Fulton County.
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