Grand jury selected to consider Donald Trump election fraud caseA US grand jury assembled in Georgia is set to consider evidence against ex-president Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The grand jury, based in Atlanta, may decide whether Mr Trump should face criminal charges for trying to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
The Republican has denied wrongdoing, calling the case a "witch hunt".
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wallis, a Democrat, launched the investigation in early 2021.
The two-and-a-half year probe has grown into a sprawling inquiry into various efforts by Mr Trump and his allies to sway the election results in his favour.
Those efforts include a January 2021 call between Mr Trump and the state's chief elections officer, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the then-president suggested state officials could "find" more than 11,000 votes - enough to give him a victory in that state.
In a recording of the call, Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia's results are correct.
In the months after he left the White House, Mr Trump continued to make unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud and claimed that votes were stolen from him.
But Mr Trump - currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination - continues to deny the 2020 presidential election results, and has called the probe a "political witch hunt", describing his call with Mr Raffensperger as "perfect"................
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