Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is pursuing testimony from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and others.
In court petitions for their testimony filed Friday, the Georgia district attorney argued these allies of former President Donald Trump could have valuable information for the investigation into whether crimes were committed in efforts to overturn the results after the 2020 election. The prosecutor is seeking their testimony after the midterm elections.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney signed off on the requests for testimony, agreeing that the witnesses could provide valuable insights to the investigation, the Associated Press reported.
In her petition for testimony from Gingrich, Willis referenced evidence from the Jan. 6 committee. She cited an email he sent to Trump allies discussing a plan to "arouse the country's anger" over the 2020 election.
Willis also claimed he was involved in the alternative electors scheme, in which individuals presented themselves as electors to be called upon in the event that a court deemed Trump the winner. Several Trump allies used the existence of the alternative electors as justification to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence into decertifying the 2020 election results.
For Flynn, Willis noted his appearance on Newsmax after the election in which he mused that Trump could tap U.S. "military capabilities" to "re-run an election in each of those states." Flynn also participated in meetings with Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, whom Willis petitioned for testimony in August.
Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, who worked in the Trump administration, was also among the prosecutor's petitions for testimony.
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