Former President Donald Trump was indicted Monday on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, the result of a more than two-year investigation by District Attorney Fani Willis into potential 2020 election interference in that state.
Eighteen other people, including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also indicted, accused of joining Trump in efforts to unlawfully change the outcome of the election.
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The indictment describes those charged as part of a criminal organization that violated the state’s racketeering (or RICO) law. Other charges include making false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, conspiracy to defraud the state and perjury, among others.
“Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” Willis said in a news conference late Monday.
Among the offenses named in the indictment was a request from Trump to then-Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to alter votes. In the early January 2021 phone call, recorded and later released, Trump asked Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes,” which would have pushed him over the threshold of Biden’s win there. Since the 2020 election, Trump has falsely claimed that he won the presidency and has defended his efforts to overturn the outcome.
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Shortly before the indictment was unsealed, the Republican presidential candidate accused Willis on his Truth Social account of strategically stalling “her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race.”
Attempts to change the outcome of the election is also the subject of a federal indictment, handed down less than two weeks ago that accuses Trump – along with six unnamed associates – of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
In New York, Trump has also been charged with falsifying business records in connection with payments made on his behalf to silence talk of alleged affairs during the 2016 campaign. He was also indicted on charges that he mishandled classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, after leaving office.
An April AP-NORC poll found that while a majority of voters did not believe Trump acted illegally in the New York case, about half of voters believe he broke the law by mishandling the documents and trying to overturn the election in Georgia.
Left: Eighteen other people, including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, were also indicted. Photo by Brandon Bell/ Getty Images
