Pro-Trump agent investigated for alleged electoral fraud testifies

A pro agentTrump who was caught participating in a violation of Georgia’s voting system after the 2020 election, testified before the special jury investigating attempts to overturn the result in the US state, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN .

Scott Hall, a Georgia guarantor and Fulton County Republican poll observer, who was caught on surveillance video the same day the breach took place and acknowledged that he gained access to a voting machine, testified for more than three hours. last week, in an investigation overseen by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the sources said.

Hall’s testimony before the grand jury has not been previously reported.

On January 7, 2021, the day after the attack on the US Capitol, Hall and others linked to Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell spent hours inside a restricted area of ​​the Coffee County election office, where they set up computers near equipment. and appeared to access voting data.

Willis’ criminal investigation has recently expanded to include the violation of voting systems by agents working for Powell in the Coffee County area, considered an extremely Republican area.

Hall did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

According to court documents obtained by the CNN Hall’s role in investigating alleged election fraud in Georgia is also mentioned in a November 2020 email that Trump’s Georgia Election Day Operations Chief received from the state’s GOP chairman.

“Scott Hall is reviewing the election on behalf of the President at the request of David Bossie. I know him,” David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, wrote November 20, 2020, to Robert Sinners, Georgia’s chief of Trump’s Election Day operations.

Shafer, who was among 16 individuals who served as Trump’s false voter in Georgia, was told he is a target in the Fulton County District Attorney’s criminal investigation.

Bossie, a longtime Republican agent who served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager during the 2016 presidential election, is a close ally of the former president and was initially chosen to lead his post-2020 election legal challenges.

Although Bossie was effectively sidelined as the leader of the Trump campaign’s litigation effort just weeks after Election Day, according to the book “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, he remains a prominent member of the Party. Republican, having served as a member of the Republican Party’s national committee for Maryland.

Bossie is also Hall’s brother-in-law, according to two sources familiar with their relationship.

Bossie did not respond to a request for comment from CNN .

“Wild Theories”

During his recent testimony as part of a separate civil case relating to election security in Georgia, Sinners was asked about his knowledge of the Coffee County violation.

Sinners, who is currently the communications director for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, told CNN that he continues to carry out the investigations to the best of his ability and that his testimony in the civil case shows that he knew nothing about the data breach at the Coffee County Election Office.

In his recent testimony, Sinners said he spoke on the phone with Hall for less than a few minutes after the 2020 election and that the Georgia bail bondsman had some “crazy theories.”

“I didn’t believe he was an authoritative source of election information,” Sinners said of Hall, according to court documents.

Asked why he didn’t flag authorities about Hall, Sinners said: “If I had contacted the police about all the conspiracy theories that someone contacted me about, I would still be there until next Christmas,” according to court documents. .

Shafer told CNN who did not want to comment on the Fulton County special jury investigation at this time, but noted that the reason he emailed the Sinners in November 2020 was because Hall had asked the Georgia Republican Party for a list of complaints. received by voters who claimed to have voted remotely when, in fact, they did not.