The lawyer investigating whether former US President Donald Trump illegally interfered with the state of Georgia's 2020 election results is confident the probe can be concluded within the next two months.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is leading the team investigating Trump and whether the former President and his allies broke the law in their campaign to pressure state officials to reverse his Georgia election loss.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
"I think we could be in and out 90 days," Willis said of the Georgia investigation into Trump, which got underway last month.
"In a perfect world, I think we can finish in July, August," Willis told Yahoo News.
The investigation of Trump focuses in part on his phone call to Georgia's secretary of state, asking him to "find" the votes needed to overturn the election loss - based on false voter-fraud claims.
Willis told Yahoo she was confident about her investigation into Trump but "I don't expect that everything will go perfect, because that's just not the way life works".
To pursue charges, Willis needed to prove a pattern of corruption by Trump aimed at overturning the election results to stay in power.
Willis' comments came as a US congressional committee was also separately investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol - before which Trump made an incendiary speech and repeated false election fraud claims.
The committee has also said there was enough evidence for Trump to face criminal charges.
"I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump," said committee member Adam Schiff, a Democratic congressman for California.
"Once the evidence is accumulated by the Justice Department, it needs to make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the President's guilt or anyone else's," Schiff told ABC News' This Week programme.
Trump's campaign manager will testify at the committee's second public hearing this month on Monday (local time), after a blockbuster session on Thursday night featuring testimony showing that close Trump allies - even his daughter Ivanka - rejected his false claims of voting fraud.
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