Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Senator David Perdue (R-GA), wave during a campaign event at the Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub, in Milton, Georgia, December 21, 2020.
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The full special grand jury report that led to the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others for trying to overturn his 2020 Georgia election loss recommended also charging two former U.S. senators from the state, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, and current U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Neither of those three current and former Republican lawmakers were indicted last month by the regular Fulton County Superior Court grand jury that charged Trump and the other defendants.
Graham scoffed at the idea that he should have been charged in the case, vowing to reporters “I’ll do the same thing” in the next election if he saw the need.
Also not charged were 18 other people whom the special grand jury had recommended for indictment, including former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, Trump advisor and lawyer Boris Epshteyn, and campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell, according to the report.
The full 25-page report of the special grand jury, which finished its investigative work last winter, was released Friday morning.
The special grand jury recommended that Graham, Perdue and Loeffler, along with others, should be indicted for crimes related to “the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, focused on efforts in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is seen during a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, September 7, 2023.
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Graham, talking to reporters later, said “If it ever becomes impossible or politically dangerous or legally dangerous for a United States Senator to call up people to find out how the election was wrong, God help us all.”
“The next election, if I have questions, I’ll do the same thing.”
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