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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was one of 18 people the Georgia grand jury investigating election interference initially recommended charges against but were ultimately not indicted. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI

1 of 3 | Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was one of 18 people the Georgia grand jury investigating election interference initially recommended charges against but were ultimately not indicted. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo

Sept. 8 (UPI) — The Georgia grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others initially recommended charging more than twice as many individuals including two former U.S. senators and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to a release of the full report Friday.

The Fulton County grand jury’s report showed that it recommended Graham, R-S.C., and former Georgia U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler be indicted for crimes related to “the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”

Perdue and Loeffler both represented Georgia in the Senate at the time of the election but were ultimately unseated in runoff elections by Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnoff as Trump escalated his claims of election fraud, with a focus on the state’s election.

The report noted that a juror voted against indicting the two lawmakers as their statements after the election “did not give rise to their being guilty of a criminal conspiracy.”

Graham had been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury as he was one of the prominent Republicans that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said pressured him to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 election.

Along with Graham, Perdue and Loeffler, 18 other people were recommended for indictment but ultimately not charged including Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorneys Boris Epshteyn and Cleta Mitchell.

The report filed with the Fulton County Clerk recommended Trump be indicted for the phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seeking to pressure him to “find” 11,780 votes to change the results in Trump’s favor.

Trump was indicted last month along with 18 others including his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.

The crimes the special grand jury said happened include the “fake electors” scheme, the Raffensberger call and Coffee County Georgia voting machines being accessed by unauthorized Trump allies all in an effort to overturn the legal results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

Many of the recommended indictments were for the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

The special grand jury’s report also definitively reiterated that there was no widespread election fraud in Georgia as claimed by Trump and his supporters.

“The grand jury heard extensive testimony on the subject of alleged election fraud from poll workers, investigators, technical experts, and State of Georgia employees and officials, as well as from persons still claiming such fraud took place. We find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election,” the report said.

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Former President Donald Trump is pictured in this photo provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Atlanta on August 24, 2023. Trump surrendered on a 13-count indictment for efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Photo courtesy of Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/UPI | License Photo

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