Former President Donald Trump will likely be arrested (again) in approximately 11-18 weeks in Georgia, according to a bombshell report released on Monday.
Trump is the target of an investigation by a Democratic prosecutor’s office, this time in Atlanta.
The prosecutor in Atlanta said they are investigating whether Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia and will announce their decision to indict the 45th president over the summer.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote in a letter to county Sheriff Pat Labat that she expects to announce the decisions sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1. She said she wanted to give Labat time to coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies “to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public” before she took Trump into custody.
“Open-source intelligence has indicated the announcement of decisions in this case may provoke a significant public reaction,” Willis wrote in the letter, adding that some could involve “acts of violence that will endanger the safety of our community.”
As leaders, they need to be prepared, she wrote, adding that her team would be in touch to talk about arrangements.
The letter was first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which reported that letters were also sent to Atlanta’s police chief and the head of the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency.
The Atlanta Police Department confirmed receipt of a letter from Willis and said it would “continue to monitor the potential for unrest throughout our city.”
Willis has been investigating whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia.
She opened the investigation in early 2021, shortly after a recording of a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was made public. In that call, Trump suggested the state’s top elections official could help “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss in the state.
It has become clear since then that the scope of the Democrats investigation has expanded far beyond that call.
Trump, who last fall announced a 2024 bid for the White House, was also recently arrested in New York. A Manhattan grand jury in March indicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records during the 2016 presidential election.
Trump’s legal team in Georgia — Drew Findling, Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg — said in a statement that Willis’ announcement to law enforcement “does nothing more than set forth a potential timetable” for decisions Willis had already said were coming.
“On behalf of President Trump, we filed a substantive legal challenge for which the D.A.’s Office has yet to respond,” the statement said. “We look forward to litigating that comprehensive motion which challenges the deeply flawed legal process and the ability of the conflicted D.A’s Office to make any charging decisions at all.”
Trump’s legal team last month filed a motion seeking to toss out a report drafted by a special grand jury that was impaneled to aid Willis’ investigation. They also asked the court to prohibit Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump. A judge gave Willis until May 1 to respond.
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article