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When President Donald J. Trump’s eldest son took the stage outside the Georgia Republican Party headquarters two days after the 2020 election, he likened what lay ahead to mortal combat. “Americans need to know this is not a banana republic!” Donald Trump Jr. shouted, claiming that Georgia and other swing states had been overrun by wild electoral shenanigans. He described tens of thousands of ballots that had “magically” shown up around the country, all marked for Joseph R. Biden Jr., and others dumped by Democratic officials into “one big box” so their authenticity could not be verified. Mr. Trump told his father’s supporters at the news conference — who broke into chants of “Stop the steal!” and “Fraud! Fraud!” — that “the number one thing that Donald Trump can do in this election is fight each and every one of these battles, to the death!”Over the two months that followed, a vast effort unfolded on behalf of the lame-duck president to overturn the election results in swing states across the country.

Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, Donald Trump Jr, Joseph R, Biden, Trump, —, Donald Trump, Willis Organizations: Georgia Republican Party, Democratic Locations: Georgia, Fulton County

☆ Trump Indictment, Part IV: A Spectacle That Has Become Surreally Routine
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Peter Baker | More About Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the fourth time in as many months, former President Donald J. Trump was charged on Monday with serious crimes and what was once unprecedented has now become surreally routine. But a country of short attention spans has now seen this three times before and grown oddly accustomed to the spectacle. The Georgia indictment went further than previous ones by charging 18 others with collaborating in a criminal enterprise with the former president, including associates like Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman. Yet most Americans made up their minds about Mr. Trump long before prosecutors like Fani T. Willis or Jack Smith weighed in, polls have shown. The Georgia indictment, powerful as it is in its language, has been priced into the market, as the Wall Street types would put it.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Willis, Jack Smith Locations: United States, Georgia

The grand jury will likely decide within days whether Mr. Trump should be indicted for interfering in the presidential election in Georgia. Here is what we know about the investigation in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta. Why is Mr. Trump under investigation in Georgia? Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, began looking into whether Mr. Trump and his associates violated Georgia law shortly after a recording was released of Mr. Trump talking by phone to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, on Jan. 2, 2021. During the call, Mr. Trump insisted that he had won the state of Georgia and made baseless allegations of fraud, even though multiple recounts confirmed that he had lost.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Joseph R, Biden, Willis, Brad Raffensperger Organizations: Republican, New York Times, Siena, Mr Locations: Fulton County ,, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta

☆ Trump Election Interference Case to Go to Grand Jury in Georgia Early Next Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Richard Fausset | More About Richard Fausset | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Chidi informed The New York Times on Saturday that he had received the notice to appear. BackgroundFani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., has spent two-and-a-half years investigating whether Mr. Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in the state. In New York, Mr. Trump was indicted in April on state charges stemming from his alleged role in paying hush money to a porn star. Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty in those cases. What’s NextIf Mr. Trump is indicted in Georgia, he will have to travel to Atlanta in the days or weeks afterward to be booked and arraigned.

Persons: Jack Smith, Trump, Chidi, Duncan, Fani, Willis Organizations: New York Times, Saturday, CNN Locations: Georgia, Fulton County ,, New York , Florida, Washington, New York, Miami, Atlanta

The fourth criminal case involving Donald J. Trump is likely to come to a head next week, with the district attorney in Atlanta expected to take the findings from her election interference investigation to a grand jury. The Georgia investigation may be the most expansive legal challenge yet to the efforts that Mr. Trump and his advisers undertook to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 election. Ms. Willis has signaled that she would seek indictments from a grand jury in the first half of August. Security barriers were recently erected in front of the downtown Atlanta courthouse, and at lunchtime on Tuesday, 16 law enforcement vehicles were parked around the perimeter. On Tuesday afternoon, two witnesses who received subpoenas to appear before the Fulton County grand jury said in interviews that they had not received notices instructing them to testify within the next 48 hours, a sign that the case will not get to the jury until next week.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Willis Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton County ,, Fulton

The sheriff of Fulton County, Ga., said on Tuesday that if former President Donald J. Trump were to be indicted in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state, he would not receive special treatment, and would be booked and photographed like any other defendant. The Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, has signaled that she will bring indictments in the matter by the middle of the month. “Unless someone tells me differently,” the sheriff, Patrick Labat, said on Tuesday, his office would follow “normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status. We’ll have mug shots ready for you.”Sheriff Labat’s remarks raised the prospect that a former president could be booked at the county jail near downtown Atlanta. But it remains to be seen whether the Secret Service would weigh in and alter the sheriff’s plans, should an indictment of Mr. Trump come to pass.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Fani, Willis, Patrick Labat, Labat’s, Mr Locations: Fulton County ,, Fulton County, Atlanta

A Georgia judge on Monday forcefully rejected an effort by former President Donald J. Trump to throw out evidence collected by a special grand jury and to remove the current prosecutor from the investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. Judge Robert C. I. McBurney of the Fulton County Superior Court wrote in a nine-page order that Mr. Trump did not have the legal standing to make such challenges before indictments were handed up. The office of the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, a Democrat, is expected to present potential indictments in the matter to a regular grand jury by mid-August. A “special purpose” grand jury, which did not have indictment power, interviewed dozens of witnesses and subpoenaed documents over the course of roughly seven months. Then, the jury issued an advisory report that recommended the indictment of a number of people for violations of Georgia laws, according to the jury forewoman.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Robert C, Fani, Willis Organizations: Court, Democrat Locations: Georgia, Fulton County

At least two grand juries in Washington have been hearing matters related to Mr. Trump’s efforts to stay in office. Two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Christopher M. Kise, briefly mentioned the new target letter at a pretrial hearing in Florida on Tuesday on the documents case. In disclosing that he had received the target letter, Mr. Trump said he was given four days to testify before a grand jury if he chooses. Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., who has pressed ahead with her own investigation of Mr. Trump and his allies, could bring charges as early as next month. If she were to proceed first, that could complicate Mr. Smith’s case.

Persons: Todd Blanche, Christopher M, Kise, Blanche, Trump, Willis, Smith Organizations: Court Locations: Washington, Trump, Fort Pierce, Fla, Florida, Fulton County ,

☆ Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Quash Investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Danny Hakim | More About Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

ATLANTA — In a ruling on Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a long-shot attempt by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to scuttle an investigation into election interference weeks before indictment decisions are expected. The pronouncement from the court was both unanimous and swift, coming just three days after Mr. Trump’s lawyers submitted their filing. She has been the prosecutor in charge of the investigation into whether Mr. Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia. Most of the court’s nine justices were originally appointed by Republican governors; thus far, the case has played out in Superior Court in Atlanta. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had conceded in their filing that they were up against long odds and had identified “no case in 40 years” where the court had intervened in the way they were seeking.

Persons: Donald J, Fani, Willis, Trump, “, ” Organizations: ATLANTA, Georgia Supreme, Trump Locations: Georgia, Atlanta, Fulton County, Superior Court

Once he was sworn in as president, Mr. Trump reimbursed Mr. Cohen. Rather than publish her account, the tabloid suppressed it in cooperation with Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen, prosecutors say. Legal experts say that Mr. Trump and others appear to be at “substantial risk” of prosecution for violating a number Georgia statutes, including the state’s racketeering law. But if she were to prevail at trial, a judge could impose steep financial penalties on Mr. Trump and restrict his business operations in New York. Ms. James’s investigators questioned Mr. Trump under oath in April, and a trial is scheduled for October.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Jack Smith, Alvin L, Bragg, Stormy Daniels, Michael D, Cohen, Daniels, Karen McDougal, McDougal, Brad Raffensperger, Biden’s, —, Emily Kohrs, “ You’re, ”, “, Willis, Jan, Mr . Biden, Smith, Mike Pence, Mark Meadows, Letitia James, Mr, James, Donald Jr, Eric, Jonah E, Rebecca Davis O’Brien, Michael Gold, Michael Rothfeld, Ed Shanahan, Richard Fausset, Ashley Wong Organizations: Capitol, Manhattan, National Enquirer, Mr, ., The New York Times, Justice Department, Trump, Prosecutors, White House, Trump White House, New York, Civil, New Locations: Manhattan, Georgia, . Georgia, Fulton County, United States, Washington, Trump’s, New, New York, Bromwich

☆ Atlanta Prosecutors Contact Firms That Consulted With Trump Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Danny Hakim | Richard Fausset | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prosecutors in Atlanta investigating election interference by Donald J. Trump and his allies recently contacted two consulting companies that were hired by the Trump campaign in 2020 to research myriad claims of vote fraud but ended up finding no proof that significant fraud had occurred, according to people with knowledge of the investigation. The interest in the companies and their work in Georgia and several other battleground states could be used by prosecutors to undercut claims by Mr. Trump and his allies that they had legitimate grievances about the election. The firms had previously been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors. The latest development regarding prosecutors in Atlanta was reported earlier by The Washington Post. Ms. Willis is looking into a number of other post-election moves by the Trump team, including a plan to create a slate of fake electors pledged to Mr. Trump despite President Biden’s victory in Georgia.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Fani, Willis, Brad Raffensperger, Biden’s Organizations: Simpatico Software Systems, Berkeley Research, Mr, The Washington Post, Trump Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton County ,

[1/3] The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Photocall for the film "How to Have Sex" in competition for the category Un Certain Regard - Cannes, France, May 19, 2023. However, there was a slight hiccup: Molly Manning Walker was not in the room when the award for her debut feature was announced. The first Sudanese film to be included in the Cannes official selection, "Goodbye Julia," took the freedom award. Director Mohamed Kordofani thanked the Sudanese people for their support as well as for not giving up. "Un Certain Regard" is a competition focused on arthouse films that runs parallel to the main competition, the Palme d'Or, which will be announced on Saturday.

☆ Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Richard Fausset | Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The moves suggest that Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. Ms. Willis outlined the remote work plan and made the request to judges in a letter sent on Thursday to 21 Fulton County officials, including the chief county judge, Ural Glanville, and the sheriff, Pat Labat. “Thank you for your consideration and assistance in keeping the Fulton County Judicial Complex safe during this time,” wrote Ms. Willis, who has already asked the F.B.I. Ms. Willis had said in a previous letter that any charges related to the Trump investigation would come in the grand jury term that runs from July 11 to Sept. 1. Her letter on Thursday appears to offer more specificity on timing.

☆ Georgia Prosecutor Rebuts Trump’s Effort to Scuttle Elections Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Richard Fausset | Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She also asked the judge, in a 24-page court document filed on Monday, to reject a request from Mr. Trump to suppress the final report of a special grand jury that weighed evidence last year in the election meddling case. Ms. Willis was responding to an earlier motion filed by Mr. Trump’s lawyers that accused her of making biased statements over the course of her investigation. The lawyers also argued that the work of the special grand jury had been “tainted by improper influences,” noting that jurors were allowed to read news articles about the matter during their time of service. (Special grand juries in Georgia have different rules than regular grand juries or trial juries.) In her response, Ms. Willis said that the Trump legal team had not met the “exacting standards” for disqualifying a prosecutor and did not back up various accusations about the investigative process with evidence.

☆ Most Fake Trump Electors Have Taken Immunity Deals in Georgia Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than half of the bogus Georgia electors who were convened in December 2020 to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power have taken immunity deals in the investigation into election interference there, according to a court filing on Friday and people with knowledge of the inquiry. In addition, Craig A. Gillen, the former deputy independent counsel in the 1980s-era Iran Contra scandal, has been hired to represent a fake elector who could still face criminal charges, David Shafer, the head of the Georgia Republican Party. A special grand jury that heard evidence in the case for roughly seven months recommended more than a dozen people for indictments, and its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them. Ultimately, it will be up to Ms. Willis to decide which charges to seek before a regular grand jury, which she has said she will do after a new jury is seated in mid-July. Her case is focused in part on a plan to create the slate of electors pledged to Mr. Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election despite Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia.

☆ Who is Fani Willis, the Prosecutor at the Center of the Trump Investigation?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Richard Fausset | More About Richard Fausset | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

ATLANTA — Fani T. Willis strode up to a podium in a red dress last year in downtown Atlanta, flanked by an array of dark suits and stone-faced officers in uniform. “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong,” she said, facing a bank of news cameras. “And you are going to suffer consequences.”Ms Willis is the first Black woman to lead Georgia’s largest district attorney’s office. In her 19 years as a prosecutor, she has led more than 100 jury trials and handled hundreds of murder cases. Since she became chief prosecutor, her office’s conviction rate has stood at close to 90 percent, according to a spokesperson.

Persons: Willis strode, Fulton, ”, Ms Willis, —, Donald J, Trump Organizations: ATLANTA Locations: Atlanta, Georgia

In an interview with Allure magazine, Stefani, 53, who is Italian American, cited the influence of Japanese culture in her home when she was growing up. "I said, 'My God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it,'" Stefani told Allure. She later insisted, "I am, you know," calling herself a "super fan" of Japanese culture. A representative for Stefani told Calaor that she had "misunderstood what Stefani was trying to convey" but declined to provide an on-the-record statement. Even before the interview, Stefani had defended her "Harajuku" era.

☆ Regăsește-te în cele 14 tipuri de fani „Game of Thrones”
▼ + stars: | 2015-04-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Acum câteva zile a avut loc marea premieră a sezonului 5 de „Game of Thrones/Urzeala Tronurilor”, serial filmat în baza epopeii lui George Martin. Fanii care sunt siguri că fiecare persoană adoră serialulAcești fani niciodată nu vor accepta o lume în care cineva undeva spune că nu iubește „Game of Thrones”. Fanii care nu percep incestulAcești fani mereu vor pune accentul pe faptul că Jaime și Cersei sunt gemeni și că ei au copii. Fanii care nu suportă scenele violenteÎn comparație cu fanii din puctul 9, acest tip de fani nu sunt capabili să privească liniștit scenele de violență din „Game of Thrones”. De fapt, tipurile de fani „Game of Thrones” sunt nenumărate, însă, probabil, acestea sunt cele mai vizibile părți ale societății de fani care nu se schimbă.

Persons: George Martin, cela, G.Martin, Jaime, Cersei, Oedip, Ramsay Bolton, Cersei Lannister, Ea, Lena, Tyrion Lannister, Tyrion, Joffrey ., Lannister Locations: Westeros, Angliei, Irlandei

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