Georgia grand jury picked for possible charges in Trump election case BBC
A US grand jury that is expected to decide whether to charge former President Donald Trump and his allies over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election has been sworn in in Georgia.
Mr Trump has been under investigation for his 2021 phone call to a Georgia election official, pressing him to find thousands of votes in his favour.
The Republican has denied wrongdoing.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wallis, a Democrat, launched the investigation in early 2021.
She has previously hinted that any charges would probably be filed in August.
A focal point of the inquiry is a January 2021 call between Mr Trump and Georgia's chief elections officer, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the then-president suggested local officials could "find" more than 11,000 votes - enough to give him a victory in the Peach State.
In a recording of the call, Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia's results are correct.
Mr Trump continued to make unsubstantiated claims of widespread electoral fraud in the months after he left the White House.
Currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Mr Trump continues to deny the 2020 presidential election results, and has called the Georgia probe a "political witch hunt", while describing his call with Mr Raffensperger as "perfect".
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