Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted for canceling Georgia’s 2020 election.
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Donald Trump indicted in Georgia for interfering in 2020 US elections
On Monday, Georgia authorities accused Donald Trump and 18 of his allies of conspiring to rig Georgia’s 2020 election.
Prosecutors used a law typically used against organized crime figures to indict the former president, his lawyers and other top advisers in a massive criminal plot to keep him in power.
In a January 2021 phone call, when Trump was still president, he said the Republican secretary of state from Georgia would be able to help him “find 11,780 votes” to overturn his loss to the Democrat. Joe Biden.
This sparked a two-year investigation that culminated in Trump’s indictment by the grand jury.
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The 97-page indictment outlines numerous actions taken by Mr Trump and his supporters to undo his loss in the crucial state.
These actions include intimidating Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State to secure enough votes to keep him in office, harassing officials with false claims of voter fraud, and trying to convince Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of the people and to select a new list of voters who favor Mr Trump.
Additionally, he describes a plan to hack into voting equipment in a Georgia county and steal data.
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The other defendants were former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and a Trump administration Justice Department staffer named Jeffrey Clark who aided Trump’s efforts. to reverse his electoral defeat in Georgia.
John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were the other lawyers who developed legally dubious theories to overturn the verdicts.
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Trump was also previously indicted by a federal grand jury in early August on charges of conspiracy to sabotage the 2020 election and prevent a peaceful transfer of power through a series of false statements and unlawful actions made after the general election and leading to the violent riot by his supporters at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. In that case, he pleaded not guilty.
As the number of indictments increases, Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, frequently points out that he is the first former president to be charged with a crime.
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He uses these ideas as the foundation of his campaign and fundraising, portraying himself as the victim of Democratic prosecutors looking to nab him.
The indictment, which was released Monday evening by the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, claims that Mr. Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment “refused to accept that Mr. Trump lost, and they knowingly and willingly joined the plot.” illegally changing the election results in favor of Mr. Trump.
According to Willis, at noon on August 25, the defendants can surrender voluntarily. Additionally, she said she would like a trial date within six months.
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