{"id":1980314,"date":"2023-07-22T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-contacted-by-jack-smith-in-trump-2020-election-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:39:49","slug":"brian-kemp-contacted-by-jack-smith-in-trump-2020-election-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-contacted-by-jack-smith-in-trump-2020-election-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith reached out to Brian Kemp regarding the Trump 2020 election probe."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrian-kemp-contacted-by-jack-smith-in-trump-2020-election-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Special Counsel Contacts Governor Kemp in Trump\u2062 Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office reached out to Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA)\u2062 this\u200b week regarding the\u200c investigation into\u200b former President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u200c alleged attempts to overturn the\u2063 2020 \u2063election results.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm our \u200doffice has been contacted by Jack\u2062 Smith&#8217;s office, but we will decline to comment \u200dfurther\u2064 at\u2063 this time,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Andrew Isenhour, spokesperson for the governor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Real J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/h2>\n<p>Trump is currently under federal investigation and may face a third indictment for his alleged efforts to \u2064overturn the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-contacted-by-jack-smith-in-trump-2020-election-investigation\/\" title=\"Jack Smith reached out to Brian Kemp regarding the Trump 2020 election probe.\">initial state election results<\/a>, Trump asked Kemp to \u200dconvene a\u200b special session\u200c of the \u200cstate legislature to overturn President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory in Georgia. He also urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 to &#8220;find 11,780 votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Trump&#8217;s \u2064actions includes a separate inquiry led \u2062by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Kemp testified before the grand\u200d jury last year, although \u2063it does not possess the power to issue indictments. The \u200binvestigation&#8217;s report refuted Trump&#8217;s claims of \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">widespread voter fraud<\/a> and recommended various legal actions.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp \u200bhas criticized the \u2064investigation into Trump&#8217;s alleged interference in the state&#8217;s\u200c presidential election, \u2064considering\u200d it a &#8220;distraction&#8221;\u2062 from the Biden administration&#8217;s accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more\u2062 from the\u200b Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a distraction from us being focused on Joe Biden&#8217;s record and discussing\u2062 the \u2063border \u2062crisis and the chaotic \u200dwithdrawal from Afghanistan,&#8221; Kemp stated after Trump revealed he had received a target\u2064 letter.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Trump shared on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>, Truth Social,\u2062 that he had received a letter\u2063 from Smith, designating him as a target of\u2063 the Justice Department&#8217;s\u2063 investigation into potential election interference in 2020. Target letters serve as official correspondence from prosecutors to individuals under\u2062 investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office reached out to Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) regarding the probe into ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Kemp&#8217;s spokesperson, Andrew Isenhour, confirmed the contact but declined to provide further comment for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}