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How Lindsey Graham thinks he can avoid testifying in Georgia’s election probe

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August 23, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EDT
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) is fighting a subpoena to testify in a criminal investigation in Georgia about Donald Trump’s election fraud claims. (Meg Kinnard/AP)
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In the Georgia criminal probe into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss there, a grand jury has heard from some notable Republicans: Georgia’s secretary of state, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and members of Congress.

Next, investigators want the testimony of Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). The prominent Republican senator isn’t from Georgia, but he was an ally of Trump’s, and prosecutor Fani Willis (D) has written that Graham could be crucial to understanding “a multistate, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”