Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis has not exactly held her cards close to her vest about her opinion of Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. She has signaled that she will seek criminal charges next month against Trump.

Her investigation has gone on for two-and-a-half years. She is investigating Trump and his allies who allegedly interfered in Georgia’s 2020 election. One claim is that Trump made a phone call to ask the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes so that Trump would be declared the winner in Georgia. Rafffensperger refused to go along. The case is now before a grand jury and Willis expects to act in August. She has told city and county leaders to get ready for “heightened security and preparedness” because no matter how her decision plays out, she expects it will “provoke a significant public reaction.”

With the scene in Miami when Trump went to the federal courthouse there freshly in their minds, Georgia officials are preparing for potentially large crowds of protesters, counter-protesters, and media from around the world. Law enforcement has to arrange a safe travel route from the airport to the Fulton County courthouse or to the jail to be processed. There will also be a need for extra security to diffuse threats both inside and outside the buildings. There will likely be police officers patrolling on bikes, motorcycles, horses, and in helicopters. There will also be a presence of plainclothes officers.

If Fulton County does as well as Miami did, everything will be ok. “It’s not a Chamber of Commerce moment, but you want to make sure it’s a good visit for the city because we’ll be in an international spotlight,” said Joe Whitley, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who served as a top Department of Homeland Security official.

The important part of all this is that Fani Willis is not letting up, she isn’t going to blink, and she expects to indict Trump at the end of all this. Fulton County officials will study the security in Miami and in New York City where Trump was arraigned in April.

The Fulton Sheriff’s office confirmed it sent deputies to study the security in Miami and New York City, where Trump in April was arraigned on state charges. (The Atlanta Police Department also assigned a major to travel to Florida.) Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat recently told Channel 2 Action News that his office is seeking to understand “what safety and security looks like so we are prepared holistically.”

Unlike New York, Trump wouldn’t need to be present in Fulton Superior Court for a potential indictment to be unsealed. But he would need to travel here on a date agreed upon by his attorneys and law enforcement to surrender to authorities.

One difference between Georgia and Florida or New York is that Georgia permits guns in most public spaces. State law prevents guns in courthouses but not in the surrounding areas. Georgia also has concealed carry without a permit.

As a normal routine, people who are indicted surrender at the Fulton County jail. However, the former president has unique security needs, and there are political concerns. The DOJ recently launched an investigation of the jail, which has nothing to do with Trump but it’s likely his lawyers will negotiate with the sheriff’s office to allow him to surrender at the courthouse.

In the meantime, the former Georgia Republican Party chairman is trying to fend of a possible indictment into possible criminal interference with the 2020 presidential election. His lawyers sent a 13-page letter to Fani Willis this week stating that Shafer was within his constitutional rights to cast an “alternate” Electoral College ballot for Trump and should not be criminally charged. Willis has previously indicated that Shafer is one of the individuals that is a target of her investigation.

The letter to Willis was sent on the same day Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges against 16 phony electors for doing essentially the same thing Shafer and his 15 fellow false electors did in a committee room at the state Capitol here. Like the electors in Georgia, Michigan’s GOP electors, in casting their votes for Trump and Pence, said they were “the duly elected and qualified electors.”

“That was a lie,” Nessel said in statement. She added that the electors may have believed “the now-debunked myths of vote tampering or ballot dumps” and may have “genuinely believed that this was their patriotic duty,” but that did not give them “legal justification to violate the law and upend our Constitution.”

It will be interesting to see what happens in August. I fully expect Willis to indict Trump and do what she can to get him convicted.