The text messages reportedly tie former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to the Georgia voting system breach.
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Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors have text messages that connect some of former President Donald Trump’s legal team to a voting system breach in a rural Georgia county, CNN reported—as Willis prepares for indictments in her long-running investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.Key Facts
Texts and emails obtained by prosecutors suggest the early 2021 breach in Coffee County—in which people attempted to access voting machines to create evidence of voter fraud—was led by members of Trump’s team, rather than local Trump supporters acting alone, people close to the investigation told CNN.
The text messages reportedly show members of Trump’s legal team—including former New York City mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani—and people they hired received a “written invitation” to access the voting machines, as they sought to access the county’s voting system before the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral win.
The texts showed the invitation was written by Misty Hampton, a former county official who previously made the baseless claim that Dominion voting machines could be easily manipulated, CNN said.
CNN reported Giuliani, Trump attorney Sidney Powell and members of a team hired to investigate voter fraud in Georgia knew of the “written invitation” and indicated in a December White House meeting they were excited about obtaining “voluntary access” to the machines.
