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Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump asks FBI for security help
Trump on Saturday railed against prosecutors like Fulton County DA Fani Willis who are investigating him, calling them “racist” and urging mass protests.
Feb. 1, 2022, 3:02 AM +08 / Updated Feb. 1, 2022, 6:34 AM +08By Dareh Gregorian, Charlie Gile and Blayne Alexander
The Georgia prosecutor probing possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump asked the FBI on Sunday for security assistance after Trump called for mass protests in some cities where his conduct is under investigation.
In a Jan. 30 letter to the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis noted that her office is “conducting a criminal investigation of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates regarding alleged attempts to improperly influence the administration of Georgia’s 2020 General Election,” and that she has convened a special grand jury to hear evidence in the case in May.
She asked that the federal law enforcement agency “conduct a risk assessment of the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center, and that you provide protective resources to include intelligence and federal agents.”
“We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” she wrote. “My staff and | will not be influenced or intimidated by anyone as this investigation moves forward.”
The request came after Trump held a campaign-style rally Saturday in Conroe, Texas, where he repeatedly attacked the prosecutors who’ve been investigating him as “racist.”
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt,” Trump said at the rally, before segueing into the “unfair” treatment of those who’ve been charged with storming the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6.
“If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly,” Trump said.
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In a statement, the FBI field office said the agency “supports our state, local, and federal law enforcement partners with maintaining public safety in the communities we serve.”
“As we do in the normal course of business, we are gathering information to identify any potential threats and are sharing that information with our partners,” the statement said.
Trump’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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