Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who resisted intense pressure from former President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results in his state, revealed Tuesday that he has been interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith’s office.
“I basically told them the same thing I told the special grand juries: that I follow the law and the Constitution and answered all their questions truthfully,” Kemp told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” noting that the conversation took place “months ago” and “really didn’t last that long.”
A spokesman for the governor told CNN in July that Smith’s team had contacted Kemp but it was not previously known that he sat for an interview. The special counsel has since brought federal charges against the former president, alleging that Trump and six unindicted co-conspirators orchestrated a plot to overturn the election results on and leading up to January 6, 2021.
Kemp also provided testimony in 2022 to a special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a separate investigation by state prosecutors into Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the election in the Peach State.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in both cases and sought to interrupt the prosecutions as he campaigns to return to the White House.
When asked what he makes of Trump’s current claims that he is immune from prosecution for alleged crimes committed during his presidency, Kemp told Collins, “Well, listen, I don’t think anybody’s above the law, you know, Democrat or Republican, independent myself or anybody else.”
The former president has asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a decision from a federal appeals court rejecting his argument that the conduct Smith charged him over was part of his official duties as president…
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