Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion I testified in the Georgia probe. I hope Trump’s indictment is a pivot point.

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August 15, 2023 at 5:45 p.m. EDT
Geoff Duncan, the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, leaves the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in Atlanta. (Alex Slitz/AP)
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Geoff Duncan served as Georgia’s lieutenant governor from 2019-2023. He is the author of “GOP 2.0: How the 2020 Election Can Lead to a Better Way Forward for America’s Conservative Party.”

On Monday morning, my son alerted me that Donald Trump had just misspelled my name on his latest scorched-earth post on social media. The former president urged me not to testify before the Fulton County grand jury in the state’s 2020 election probe. He lobbed some insults my way, and then, in classic Trump fashion, misspelled my name. Ironically, he seems to have conflated me with Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), a reliable Trump ally and member of the House Freedom Caucus.