The prominent US Senator Lindsey Graham has to testify in court in the investigation into possible interference with the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. The Republican from South Carolina failed in a Georgia appeals court in an attempt to avoid such testimony. The court yesterday dismissed his lawyers' objections that as a senator Graham was protected from such investigations.

Graham was a close confidant of the then US President during Donald Trump's tenure. Specifically, his survey is likely to be about phone calls that Graham is said to have had in the weeks after Trump's election defeat in 2020 with the chief election supervisor in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, and his employees. Georgia was one of the states in which the election decided in favor of Trump's Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

Trump could also be summoned

Prosecutor Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, launched an investigation last year into the 2020 election - into attempts by Trump and his supporters to influence the lawful conduct of the election in the state with the aim of overturning the result there . Several Trump allies, including Graham, have been asked to testify before a jury that has now been set up. Willis did not rule out subpoenaing Trump as well.

To this day, the ex-president claims without any evidence that he was deprived of a second term through fraud. For weeks he tried to use questionable methods to subsequently overturn Biden's election victory. His camp also failed with dozens of lawsuits against election results in various states.