Aug 15 – Former US President Donald Trump has been charged in a fourth case in Georgia for attempting to overturn his state’s 2020 election fiasco.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others in a 41-count indictment sheet. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former White House top of staff Mark Meadows, former White House lawyer John Eastman, and former Justice Department employee Jeffrey Clark were among those indicted on Monday.
The indictment charges Trump with 13 counts, including racketeering for allegedly attempting to unlawfully change the outcome of the Georgia election in 2020 and allegedly making false statements to and soliciting the Georgia house speaker and Georgia secretary of state to violate their oaths of office in December 2020 and January 2021, according to CNN.
Trump is also charged on six counts of conspiring with others in his campaign to use bogus voters in Georgia.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched an investigation into election tampering claims in February 2021, following the publication of a recording of a phone discussion between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021.
During the discussion, the former president predicted that Raffensperger could garner 11,780 votes, which would be enough to defeat current US President Joe Biden.
The suspected co-conspirators “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favour of Trump,” according to the indictment.
Trump, who is running for the Republican nominee in 2024, has refuted all of the allegations and stated that the “politically motivated” indictment by the “rabid partisan” Democratic district attorney is intended to “damage the dominant Trump campaign.”
“This latest coordinated strike by a biassed prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democratic jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also reveals the true motivation driving their fabricated accusations,” the Trump campaign stated in a statement.
