Daily Beast: “A local criminal investigation into then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to meddle with Georgia’s 2020 election recount is inching forward, as Fulton County investigators have interviewed elections officials and received documents from the agency, according to three people with direct knowledge of the probe. ‘They’ve asked us for documents, they’ve talked to some of our folks, and we’ll cooperate fully,’ Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told The Daily Beast this week. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis previously revealed to The Daily Beast that she has spun up a new anti-corruption team to explore what state laws, if any, were broken when Trump and his allies tried to overturn election results there.”

“But her office has been quiet about the matter in the five months since. Her investigators have since interviewed at least four officials at the secretary of state’s office, asking questions that show a particular interest in Raffensperger’s separate phone conversations with Trump and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, according to two of these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Late last year, Raffensperger told The Washington Post that Graham called him a week after the hotly contested November election, asking if the state official could exercise his power to toss out mailed-in ballots in counties that had high rates of signatures that didn’t match those on file. Graham has since denied that he tried to get Raffensperger to dump legal ballots. Then there’s the Jan. 2 shakedown call between the White House and Raffensperger’s office. On that call – which was recorded and immediately leaked to The Washington Post – Trump pressured Raffensperger to ‘find 11,780 votes’ that didn’t exist in order to erase Joe Biden’s lead and flip the election results.”