Former President Donald Trump is bracing for another indictment.
The 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner said he expects to face criminal charges by next week after a Georgia prosecutor’s investigation.
“I probably have another,” Trump said during a campaign event in New Hampshire, CNBC reported.
Trump referred to Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, who is pursuing the case, as “a young racist in Atlanta.”
“I should have four [indictments] by some time next week,” Trump told supporters in Windham.
Trump pleaded not guilty in Washington last week after being arraigned on federal charges alleging that he tried to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. He faces charges in two other criminal cases as well.
Willis has been investigating Trump for two and a half years.
Of particular interest in the case is apparently a recorded phone call of the former president talking with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Trump said Willis is someone who “wants to indict me for a perfect phone call.”
“I challenged the election in Georgia, which I have every right to do, which I was right about, frankly,” Trump told the crowd, according to CNBC.
Meanwhile, the Georgia election inquiry goes beyond Trump. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Wednesday that charges of harassment could be filed in the case against other parties.
Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, who say they were harassed regarding election integrity in late 2020 and early 2021, spoke to the Fulton County grand jury, the newspaper reported.
Several jurors interviewed by the AJC, who spoke on the condition that they not be identified, reportedly said they were deeply affected by the mother and daughter’s testimony.
Multiple media outlets have reported Willis is ready to present the cases and could unveil indictments next week.
“The work is accomplished,” Ms. Willis recently told an Atlanta TV station. “We’ve been working for two and a half years. We’re ready to go.”
In other news related to Trump’s indictments, The New York Times obtained a copy of a memo written by a Trump lawyer after the 2020 election about “using fake electors.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith is using the memo in his investigation of Trump. It was written by attorney Kenneth Chesebro.
“I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy, and that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on Jan. 6,” Chesebro wrote, the NYT reported. “But as long as it is one possible option, to preserve it as a possibility, it is important that the Trump-Pence electors cast their electoral votes on Dec. 14.”
“I believe that what can be achieved on Jan. 6 is not simply to keep Biden below 270 electoral votes,” he continued.
“It seems feasible that the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will Trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until Biden can obtain a favorable decision from the Supreme Court upholding the Electoral Count Act as constitutional, or otherwise recognizing the power of Congress (and not the president of the Senate) to count the votes.”
