Former US President Donald Trump was indicted Monday in Georgia on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully overturn the state’s 2020 election defeat.
This is the fourth criminal case against the former president and the second in which he is accused of trying to undermine the result of the vote.
The Fulton County grand jury’s indictment of Trump stems from a two-year investigation that began after a phone call in January 2021 in which the then-President suggested that Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State could help him “find 11,780 votes” needed to make up for the loss. Democrat Joe Biden.
Another 18 defendants charged in the same lawsuit include former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and a Justice Department official in the Trump administration, Jeffrey Clark .
Trump was previously indicted by a federal grand jury in early August for conspiring to undermine the 2020 vote and prevent the peaceful transfer of power through a series of lies and illegal actions after the general election that led to his supporters’ violent rioting in the US Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
Trump says the process is “electoral interference” in the 2024 presidential election
Donald Trump called the Georgia lawsuit, in which he was charged with conspiracy to reverse the 2020 election defeat, “election interference.” [nas presidenciais de 2024] on behalf of the Democrats”.
Shortly after the Republican was announced to be indicted, Trump sent an email asking for funds to be raised for his 2024 presidential campaign.
In the message, the former president described the trial as “the fourth act of election interference on behalf of the Democrats, in an effort to keep the White House under control of (…) Joe [Biden] and arresting his biggest opponent in the 2024 election.”
Trump’s legal team said Georgia’s indictment stemmed from a “one-sided presentation by the grand jury” that had called “witnesses who have their own personal and political interests.”
The trio of attorneys, Drew Findling, Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg, said they “look forward to a detailed review of this indictment, which is arguably as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire trial has been.”
Trump – the leading Republican candidate for president in 2024 – continues to campaign and use successive impeachments to raise money, presenting himself as a victim of Democratic prosecutors.
Source: DN
