Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has opened a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp concerning the former president’s request to “find” the votes he needed to win the state.

In his January 2 call, Trump made uncorroborated claims about thousands of dead people voting, ballots being burned and “a couple of hundred thousand of forged signatures” on absentee ballots, to name a few. He also repeated baseless rumors about ballots for Biden being brought to polling places in suitcases and conspiracy theories about the Dominion ballot processing machines, now the subject of a defamation lawsuit against Trump’s personal lawyers, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. 

This investigation comes after George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf filed a complaint Monday accusing Trump of violating at least three election-related laws. Several former prosecutors and elected officials from Georgia agreed that “at the very least, the evidence of criminality is now strong enough to warrant a formal criminal investigation.”

Willis said in a letter to Kemp and Raffensperger on Wednesday that the investigation would look into “potential violations of Georgia law prohibiting the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election’s administration.” 

Trump currently faces a criminal investigation in New York regarding his business activities and an ongoing civil inquiry concerning financial fraud by the Trump Organization.