Act Daily News
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Former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn is showing Thursday earlier than an Atlanta-area particular grand jury probing efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
Act Daily News noticed Flynn, who was escorted by a small entourage, stroll up the steps of the Superior Court of Fulton County shortly earlier than 1 p.m. on Thursday.
Last month, a decide in Florida ordered Flynn to testify, saying the previous Trump administration official “is indeed material and necessary in the special grand jury proceeding in the state of Georgia.”
Flynn’s attorneys had argued that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s overseeing the investigation, “overstepped her authority,” so he shouldn’t be required to journey to Atlanta to testify as a result of there may be an “utter lack of facts” to assist that Flynn is a needed witness.
Fulton County prosecutors need the grand jury to listen to from Flynn a few December 18, 2020, assembly he had with Trump, lawyer Sidney Powell and others related to the Trump marketing campaign, in keeping with a courtroom submitting.
During the heated Oval Office assembly, Flynn and Powell floated outrageous solutions about overturning the election, Act Daily News beforehand reported. The assembly occurred simply three weeks after Trump pardoned Flynn close to the tip of his tenure.
Prosecutors in Georgia are additionally focused on listening to from Flynn about his December 2020 interview on the conservative media outlet Newsmax, the place he mentioned that Trump “could order – within the swing states, if he wanted to – he could take military capabilities, and he could place them in those states and basically re-run an election in each of those states,” in keeping with a courtroom submitting.
Flynn invoked his Fifth Amendment proper throughout a deposition earlier this 12 months earlier than the House choose committee investigating January 6, 2021.
In 2017, Flynn misplaced his job as nationwide safety adviser below Trump and pleaded responsible in federal courtroom after mendacity to the FBI and then-Vice President Mike Pence whereas serving within the Trump White House.