Announced this summer....

Georgia DA: Any charges against Trump and allies will be announced this summer

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said she’d announce possible criminal indictments between July 11 and Sept. 1, according to media reports.

By KELLY GARRITY

Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis will announce this summer whether or not former President Donald Trump and his allies will be charged with crimes in relation to the investigation into their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Willis said Monday, according to The Associated Press. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was the first to report on the announcement.

Willis told the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to prepare for “heightened security” in the event that her announcement provokes “a significant public reaction.” She said she would announce charging decisions, including possible criminal indictments of Trump and his allies, between July 11 and Sept. 1.

“Please accept this correspondence as notice to allow you sufficient time to prepare the Sheriff’s Office and coordinate with local, state and federal agencies to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public,” Willis wrote in the hand-delivered letter addressed to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat.

Willis’s office sent similar letters to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum and the director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency, Matthew Kallmyer, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the letter.

In January, Willis said charging decisions from the case she opened in early 2021 were “imminent.” Her office began the probe into Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results in Georgia shortly after a recording of a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was made public. In the call, Trump asked Raffensperger to help him “find” enough votes to help defeat Joe Biden in a state Biden won by more than 11,000 votes.

Willis’ announcement comes as Trump faces 34 felony charges in New York related to an alleged scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of “falsifying business records” in an attempt to cover up other crimes.