Court stalls Sen. Lindsey Graham's testimony on Trump's attempts to nullify election

MADRID, 21 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A federal appeals court has temporarily prevented the testimony of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the closest allies in the United States Congress to former President Donald Trump, on the former president's attempts to annul the result in the state of Georgia of the elections presidential elections that ended with his defeat.

The appeals court has ordered, reports the 'New York Times', to determine whether Graham is exempt from answering certain types of questions before the grand jury of Fulton County, Georgia, given his status as a congressman.

After several unsuccessful attempts to annul his testimony, Graham was required to appear next Tuesday behind closed doors in a court in downtown Atlanta.

Prosecutors wanted Graham's testimony to answer for two phone calls he made just after the 2020 election to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, asking him about ways to help Trump by invalidating votes by mail.

Raffensperger told CNN in 2020 that Graham suggested he should disregard some votes in the election recount audit.

"He asked if a vote could be traced back to the voter and then I had the feeling that they could be discarded due to errors in the signatures. That is the impression I had. It was as if he said to me 'take a good look to see how many votes you can cancel'" he explained.

Graham later responded that it was "ridiculous" that he was trying to nullify votes, saying he wanted to find out how signatures and mail-in votes were verified in key states.