Messages in possession of Georgia prosecutors investigating Former President Donald Trump reportedly link Trump allies to voting machine breaches that occurred in Coffee County, Georgia, CNN (Lean Left bias) reports.

The Details: The messages could play a key role in the ongoing election fraud case, which will be heard before a grand jury this week. As Trump’s legal team looked for evidence of election fraud in the wake of the 2020 election, they reportedly received a “written invitation” to access the county’s voting machines, penned by a former Coffee County elections official, Misty Hampton. 

For Context: Coffee County is a Republican-heavy county that Trump won by nearly 40%. In early December 2020, Hampton delayed the certification of Biden’s win in Georgia by refusing to recount results by the deadline. The “written invitation” was shared with Sullivan Strickler, a law firm working for Trump, on January 1, 2021.

Key Quotes: A January 1, 2021 message in a Sullivan Strickler group chat reportedly read, “Just landed back in DC with the Mayor (Trump ally and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani) huge things starting to come together! Most immediately, we were just granted access — by written invitation! — to Coffee County’s systems.” Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, told CNN, “Rudy Giuliani had nothing to do with this. You can’t attach Rudy Giuliani to Sidney Powell’s crackpot idea.”

How The Media Covered It: Coverage across the spectrum was based largely on CNN’s report.