When a grand jury in the state of Georgia indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants they considered co-conspirators in the investigation into Trump’s alleged interference in the vote counting from the 2020 Presidential election, they also suggested charges for three U.S. Senators.
This revelation comes courtesy of the grand jury’s full report, released Friday after Trump’s legal team failed at proving it should remain secret.
Two of the senators recommended for indictments are no longer in Congress: former Georgia U.S. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who both lost their own re-election bids in the same election.
Grand jurors voted 17-4 in favor of indicting Perdue and 14-6 to indict Loeffler.
“One of the dissenting jurors voting against recommending seeking indictments of former Senators Perdue and Loeffler on a RICO claim believes that their statements following the November 2020 election, while pandering to their political base, do not give rise to their being guilty of a criminal conspiracy,” the report states.
The grand jury also voted 16-1 to recommend Perdue for indictment over “persistent, repeated communications directed to multiple Georgia officials and employees” between November 2020 and January 2021.
The other senator recommended for indictment is current U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. That vote came in with 13 grand jurors recommending indictment against 7 voting against. There was also one abstention.
Graham actually testified before the grand jury after fighting the subpoena all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The report revealed that the indictment recommendation list was actually much more robust than the 19 defendants eventually indicted as part of the RICO case.
In addition to the three senators, list included other notable names like Georgia Lt.. Gov. Burt Jones, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and a number of Trump associates like former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Cleta Mitchell.