Graham he is one of eight people who were summoned as members of the jury Last week. Graham said he will fight the subpoena. On Monday, the judge declared Graham a “necessary witness” in the investigation. This is another step in a long legal process to get Graham out of Washington to testify. That new order says the grand jury must hear about Graham’s two alleged phone calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In the order, Fulton County Senior Judge Robert McBurney said “the court finds that Lindsey Graham is a necessary and material witness” in the special grand jury’s investigation into possible criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 election. The new order also requires Graham to testify in August. The grand jury subpoenaed Graham at the same time it also subpoenaed former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others who participated in a December 2020 Senate subcommittee hearing. “Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Can you talk about what you’re going to testify about today?’ Channel 2 political reporter Richard Elliot Giuliani then asked. “Not right now,” Giuliani said. RELATED STORIES It was there that Giuliani and the others first made accusations of massive voter fraud in Fulton County — accusations proven false by multiple state and federal investigations. But the new order said the grand jury wants to learn more about two phone calls Graham allegedly made to Raffensperger asking him to begin “reviewing certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Attu.” Graham is fighting the subpoena and last week accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of playing politics and cooperating with the Jan. 6 commission. “My investigation and the January 6 investigation are not one and the same,” Willis said in an exclusive interview last week. Willis said she hoped Graham would change his mind and come forward to testify willingly. “I hope that Senator Graham will have a moment of quiet reflection and decide to testify truthfully before this grand jury that wants to hear from him on some very important issues,” Willis said. Graham is ordered to testify on August 2. But all of this has to go through the courts in Washington, DC RELATED NEWS: Fulton DA hopes Graham will ‘decide to testify truthfully’ to grand jury in Trump probe ©2022 Cox Media Group
