Prosecutors are focused on a rural Georgia county in Trump's 2020 election case. Here's why

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Court documents, testimony to House Jan. 6 investigators and statements by those involved detail what happened in Coffee County, and its role in the attempt to keep Trump in power.

They were running out of time and needed a Hail Mary. Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election. And with less than three weeks before Congress was set to certify the results on Jan. 6, 2021, allies of then-President Trump met with him in the Oval Office to discuss taking desperate measures.

” The Coffee County reference did not appear in the draft executive order presented to Trump in the Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18. That version would have allowed Homeland Security to seize state election machines and voting data. According to testimony provided to the House Jan.

 

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