Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia have conducted an eight month investigation into multiple people for allegedly interfering in the 2020 Presidential election and a special grand jury recommended indictments on Tuesday.
Upon completion of her jury service, Emily Kohrs, the jury forewoman became an overnight media darling telling her story to numerous media outlets. With the possibility of Donald Trump receiving an indictment, the media drooled over Kohrs account of what happened in the grand jury room, and she was all too giddy with excitement to spill the beans.
In an interview with MSNBC, Kohrs said “I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly I kinda wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in and so I thought it would be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump, of me looking at him and being like, ‘Do you solemnly swear… I just thought that would be an awesome moment.”
At the time of jury selection, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Kohrs was unemployed from her former retail job and had no real knowledge of the controversy in Georgia regarding the 2020 presidential election.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution added, “High energy, with a red vape in her hand and a notebook in front of her… on what could and could not be discussed, Kohrs expressed amazement at the media attention she had received over the last several hours.”
When she was told that Trump posted “Total exoneration,” Kohrs began to laugh out loud in an interview and replied ”Did he really say that? Oh, that’s fantastic. That’s phenomenal. I love it.”
In a separate interview with CNN, the all too giddy Kohrs told viewers that when it comes to handing out indictments on multiple people, it was “not a short list.”
“There may be some names on that list that you wouldn’t expect. But the big name that everyone keeps asking me about – I don’t think you will be shocked,” she said while smiling at the camera.
Many have responded to media blitz by Kohrs obviously trying to get her fifteen minutes of fame and New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman said it best, “I’ve covered courts on and off for the last 20 years, more than that. I’ve never heard of a grand jury foreperson speaking this way. Now, this is a fact-finding grand jury. This is not a charging grand jury. But even still, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“If I’m the prosecutor, I’m not sure that I want this media tour taking place, because I’m confident that Donald Trump’s lawyers are going to use this, just based on what I was hearing last night from people, to try to argue that this is prejudicial in terms of what she is saying,” she said in disbelief.