The Daily Fuckup

A Fulton County special grand jury has released limited portions of its final report on efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, and the public pages carry two blunt findings: some witnesses may have lied under oath, and the panel found no widespread fraud in the state’s vote.

The release came on Feb. 16, 2023, after a judge ordered that parts of the report be made public while other sections remained sealed. The report does not identify the witnesses it is discussing, and it does not say perjury was proved. Instead, the public text says a majority of the grand jury believed perjury may have been committed and recommended that prosecutors seek indictments where the evidence supported charges.

That wording matters. A grand jury can flag possible crimes, but it does not itself convict anyone. The released sections stop short of naming names or laying out the full evidentiary record, so they do not settle whether any particular witness lied, what was said, or whether prosecutors will bring charges tied to false testimony. What the release does do is show that the jurors saw enough trouble in the record to warn that sworn statements may have been false.

The other major finding cuts straight against the claim that Georgia’s election result was overturned by broad fraud. The released report says the panel found no widespread fraud in the state’s 2020 presidential election. That is a direct rejection of the central argument Trump and his allies used to pressure Georgia officials after the vote.

The public release leaves much of the broader investigation sealed, but it makes clear that the grand jury’s work did not end with one disputed election narrative. It also put possible false testimony on the table as a separate issue for prosecutors to review. Whether that becomes part of any charging decision remains up to Fulton County prosecutors, who have said little publicly about their next steps.