Trump Team Behind Georgia Voting System Breach

Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources told Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray of CNN.

Photo Insert: Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the criminal probe.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week.

Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the criminal probe.

Investigators have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote.

They found evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.

Trump allies attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud.

While Trump’s January 2021 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and effort to put forward fake slates of electors have long been considered key pillars of Willis’ criminal probe, the voting system breach in Coffee County quietly emerged as an area of focus for investigators roughly one year ago.

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