WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham will not comply with a summons issued by a grand jury in Georgia investigating alleged attempts by former US President Donald Trump to revoke the results of the 2020 election, they said Wednesday the legislature’s lawyers.
“Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena and hope to prevail,” attorneys Bart Daniel and Matt Austin said in a statement made on Graham’s behalf.
They said Graham was “within his rights to discuss with state officials the processes and procedures on election administration.”
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The grand jury also cited members of Trump’s former legal team, including personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Read more
The grand jury was selected in May to consider evidence in an investigation initiated after Trump recorded a phone call on January 2, 2021 pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to annul the state’s election results based on -se in his allegations of electoral fraud.
Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) arrives before U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “The Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.” . at Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, May 1, 2019. REUTERS / Aaron P. Bernstein / Stock Photo
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Trump has denied hurting the phone call.
Graham’s lawyers said in the statement that the senator was being called as “simply a witness” in what they called “a fishing expedition.”
“Any information from an interview or deposition with Senator Graham will be shared immediately with the Jan. 6 Committee,” they said.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who convened the grand jury’s investigation, said Wednesday in an interview that more subpoenas should be expected for other Trump associates and declined to rule out a subpoena for to Trump himself.
Asked if this would also include members of the Trump family or former White House officials, he told MSNBC, “We’ll just have to see where the investigation takes us,” he called it a “very serious” matter.
“We will do our due diligence to make sure we look at all aspects of the case,” he said.
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Report by Katharine Jackson in Washington Additional report by Karen Freifeld and Susan Heavey Edited by Andy Sullivan and Matthew Lewis
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