Donald J. Trump is faces felony counts in the State of Georgia regarding Trump and his allies illegally seeking to overturn the state’s election results.
If Trump is charged it will mark his fourth Indictment in five months and the second to arise from his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump was charged with 13 counts, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents.
Among those named in the sweeping indictment, charged under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, architects of a scheme to create slates of alternate Trump electors.
Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith II, and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and two prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer and former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still.
Several lesser known players who participated in efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in Georgia were also indicted, including three people accused of harassing Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman. They are Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti. The latter is a former publicist for R. Kelly and associate of Kanye West.
A final group of individuals charged in the indictment allegedly participated in an effort to steal election-equipment data in rural Coffee County, Ga. They are former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton, former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and Georgia businessman Scott Hall.
9:30pm EST: Georgia Grand Jury returns 10 Indictments; Awaiting Unsealing
10:54pm EST: Trump indictment is unsealed
10:57pm EST: Former President Trump and 18 co-defendants have been charged altogether with more than 41 counts in Georgia’s 2020 election probe (19 Total Charged)
11:05pmEST: Fulton County DA will be speaking live.
11:05pm EST: Those charged Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Ray S. Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Mike Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Still, Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Misty Hampton, Cathy Latham, and Scott Hall
11:10pm EST: Read the full indictment
11:30pm EST: Awaiting Fulton County DA to speak
11:38pm EST: Fulton County DA press conference
11:45pm EST: Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis states that there will be no probation, and the minimum sentence is jail time.
She described the landmark indictment against Donald Trump and allies for attempting to alter the 2020 elections. Ms Willis said the indictment alleged a “criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state” which had “the illegal goal of allowing Donald J Trump to seize the presidential term of office.”
The prosecutor announced a deadline of 25 August for the defendants to turn themselves in.
11:50pm EST: All 19 will be tried together.
Sources:
Reuters: Georgia court website briefly publishes, removes document about potential Trump charges
Rolling Stone: Trump’s ‘Co-Conspirators’ Are Already Starting to Turn on Each Other
NBC News: Fulton County grand jury returns 10 indictments in 2020 election probe for Georgia
The Independent: Trump campaign launches sprawling attack as Georgia grand jury hands down indictments
MSNBC: Hillary Clinton tells Rachel Maddow: Trump indictments mean ‘the system is working’
Washington Post: Trump charged in Georgia 2020 election probe, his fourth indictment
This is an obvious ploy to try to keep him from the campaign trail. You know who else did things like this to grab control/ he was from Germany… read a history book and use critical thinking.
Goddamn, were these half-hearted attempts to defend the bloated orange shit-gibbon always this pathetic?
Sad.
as was your response. have a great night
Ironic
dont ya think?
In the history books, we read about Hitler being imprisoned after a failed coup in 1923, during which 4 policeman died. Based on the similarities, I assume by “who else” you are referring to the Bavarian state government back then. So are you complaining that they put him in prison just to stop him from campaigning?
Unfortunately it didn’t stop him though - the trial was a sham, and the sentence was extremely generous, since the court was in large parts sympathizing with Hitler and the other accused. The sentence made him more known, more popular, and he wrote Mein Kampf while in prison. Soooooo … It didn’t really work out, or how do you see it?
Edit: it seems so me that you should put more focus on reading history books, since you missed the fact Hitler was not from Germany. As an Austrian, I wish we could give that blame to Germany though.
Did Hitler go to jail before getting out and taking power? I feel the comparison is with the wrong president.
Yes, Hitler went to jail for his failed coup in Munich. Ironically, a lot of his popularity stems from that. While I doubt the original commenter actually has the historical knowledge or critical thinking skills, there are some lessons to take from history here.
nope I have it right
He has the best lawyers. He has all the rights to defend himself. If he’s innocent he will have his day on court. Even the search of his home was signed by a trump appointed judge.
Stop pretending that being a politician disqualifies a person from justice. You are a fascist.