Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been contacted by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the 2020 Donald Trump election investigation

The Office of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been contacted by the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith in connection with the investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Fox News has confirmed.

The Washington Post was the first to confirm Smith’s office reached out to Kemp after Trump announced on TRUTH Social that he had received a letter from Smith informing him he was the target of a grand jury inquest on Jan. 6.

Smith’s activities suggest a possible overlap between his investigation and that of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Since early 2021, Willis has been investigating whether Trump and his allies flouted state laws while trying to level his narrow election loss in Georgia to incumbent President Biden.

Willis opened her investigation shortly after Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 and suggested that the state’s top election official could help him “find” the votes needed to reverse his state election loss.

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The Georgia Supreme Court last week denied Trump’s request to vacate the grand jury’s special report, and Willis suggested any indictments be filed by September 1.

The Post previously reported that Raffensperger was interviewed in Atlanta last month by investigators from Smith’s office.

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Meanwhile, Kemp, who previously supported Trump, confirmed Biden’s victory in the Peach State after the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump supported Kemp’s rival, former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., in the 2022 primary campaign, but Kemp subsequently won the nomination and the general election. Kemp was also questioned by investigators from Willis’ office last year in connection with her investigation, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.

CNN reported that Smith’s office has also contacted former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in recent weeks in connection with the Justice Department’s Trump investigation.