ATLANTA – The Georgia grand jury investigating possible interference in the 2020 election by Donald Trump and his allies has recommended indictments against more than a dozen people, the foreman of the jury said Tuesday, a list he said “could ” include the former president.
“There are certainly names that you will recognize, yes. There are also names that you may not recognize,” Emily Kohrs said in an interview to air Tuesday on NBC News’ “Nightly News.”
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She said the list of recommended charges “is not a short list.”
“There are definitely some names that he’s waiting for,” he said, declining to name specific names based on instructions from the presiding judge for the grand jury.
“I don’t think there’s going to be any big plot twists coming up. I don’t think there’s going to be any giant ‘That’s not the way I expected this to go at all’ moment,” he said. “I wouldn’t expect you to be surprised.”
Asked if that potentially included Trump, Kohrs said: “Potentially. Could.”
The panel was convened in May 2022 and officially disbanded last month after submitting its recommendations to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office.
Parts of the grand jury report were made public last week and revealed that the panel interviewed 75 witnesses and recommended perjury charges against “one or more witnesses” who testified before it. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered those names to be withheld for now while the prosecutor decides whether to press charges.
Kohrs told NBC the panel thought one or possibly two witnesses might have misled the grand jury.