CNN reports Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office has obtained verified texts and emails from members of Donald Trump’s legal team linking them to a 2021 breach of voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, an indication that the effort to overturn the 2020 election results reached beyond local efforts and possible proof that the fake electors scheme was directed from Trump and/or the close circle of advisers that surrounded him, supporting his effort to undermine the Constitution.
The report indicates the attempted breach was before an effort led by Sidney “The Kraken” Powell to alter voting results in the days after the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, including a plan that led to Cathy Latham, then-chair of the Coffee County Republican Party, seen on security camera footage escorting Trump-allied “investigators” into county offices to examine the machines without supervision.
Derek Lyons, a White House aide during the Trump administration, testified before the House January 6th Committee that Trump’s transition disruption team met at the White House weeks before January 6th and discussed how to get their hands on Georgia voting machines. While some people claimed Trump had the authority as president to seize the machines–he did not–Rudy Giuliani said the campaign would gain access to the information through different means; Lyons did not specify the means, but the committee later aired security cam footage of Latham greeting Trump-supporting election deniers into Coffee County offices.
The text and emails are the first known confirmed contact between lawyers working personally with Donald Trump and the effort to position fraudulent electors to disrupt the January 6th Electoral College vote.
One of the items reportedly is a hand-written note inviting Trump’s lawyers to Coffee County sent to Katherine Friess, a lesser known attorney working with Powell, Rudy Giuliani and other members of Trump’s Elite Strike Force Team of election-denying lawyers. Among the group receiving Friess’s January 1st, 2021 email detailing the note are representatives of Sullivan Strickler, a company specializes in data management and analysis for legal efforts. Others who received it were Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik
A Sullivan Strickler employee who had traveled to Coffee County sent a text on January 1st reading, “Just landed back in DC with the Mayor huge [sic] things starting to come together!” “The Mayor” is presumably Giuliani.