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Former President Trump on Monday appeared to warn former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan against testifying before the Fulton County grand jury in the state's 2020 election probe.

Driving the news: "I am reading reports that failed former Lt. Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, will be testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury," Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday.

  • "He shouldn't. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt, a nasty disaster for those looking into the Election Fraud that took place in Georgia."
  • Duncan, who criticized Trump's false election fraud claims in 2020, said Saturday that he had been told to appear Tuesday before the Fulton County grand jury.
  • "Republicans should never let honesty be mistaken for weakness," he wrote in a post on X.

What's next: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears poised to issue a charging decision on Trump's alleged efforts to subvert election results.

The big picture: Trump's Monday Truth Social post comes days after the judge overseeing a separate trial — the federal probe into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election — warned against making "inflammatory statements" that could intimidate witnesses in that trial.

  • U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said during a Friday hearing that any appearance of witness tampering would increase the need for a speedy trial.
  • Trump already faces three criminal trials: In D.C. over efforts to overturn the 2020 election, in Florida over his retention of classified documents and in New York over an alleged hush money payment.
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

well, that should do it, judge has every signal he's not going to stop, this should put him in jail.

maybe trump wants the fight about jailing him for witness intimidation/"mah freeaaa speekin" rather than the fight over whether or not he intimidated election officials, stole top secret documents, fraudulently diverted campaign funding and fomented a violent civil insurrection

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kinda think he wants to go to jail?? I dont see how that helps him in an election scenario, but maybe its sinking in deeper and deeper for him that he will not get to that point, the feds will have him in jail before 2024. So maybe his play is to get his insane cult so riled over him being in prison up that thousand of them sacrifice their lives in some kind of futile suicide kooaide style ending to all this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In U.S. History, men like Trump usually were extreme life-wing types and it didn't end well for them. I'm shocked so little has happened to him. Everything has been legal and by the book. I'm at the point where I believe that he must be locked up and made an example of or our nation will not survive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, if that wouldn't be several thousand problems solving themselves...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the Georgia case, hasn't gone to a judge yet. Indictment is supposed to happen any time between now and 9/1.

See my "You Are Here" reply under another comment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Throw him in the clink, already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd even be OK if they threw him in a hoosegow!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

At this point, I'm pretty sure he knows he's guilty as hell, just wants to see if you can rack up all the felonies in all the states. I'm sure he's going to shoot a man in Alaska soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He needs to be grounded, like the child that he is. This judge needs to take away his toys and put him in a corner for some quiet time. Amount of time doubles every time he re-commits the same infraction later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The scary thing is "Trump is his own worst enemy". Yes, you've heard that in regards to him doing things that gets him in trouble a million times. However, when people hear him, they tend to disapprove of him. People are in love with the "idea" of Trump. Putting him in jail for witness tampering might bump him up in the polls since all the republicans can get this "idea" of Trump in their head and the real version can't contradict it.

And before you say it, no, I don't have an alternative. He should be in jail, but it's like taking a fire extinguisher to a grease fire that isn't in a pot.

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