ATLANTA.- Former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted Monday in Georgia for allegedly attempting to unlawfully overturn his defeat in the state’s 2020 election. It is the fourth criminal case that has been opened against him in the middle of his campaign, which he and an analyst have described as a “witch hunt.”
This is the second in which he is alleged to have tried to subvert the results of the vote.
The indictment details dozens of alleged actions by Trump and his allies to reverse their defeat in the state, including allegedly harassing the Georgia secretary of state to find enough votes so that Trump could retain office. can; as well as accusing him of apparently pestering officials with false allegations of voter fraud, and attempting to persuade Georgia legislators to ignore the popular will and appoint a new set of pro-Electoral College delegates. Trump.
“Trump and other defendants in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully alter the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor,” the indictment issued Monday states. at night by the office of Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney.
Other suspects are former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani; and Jeffrey Clark, a Trump administration Justice Department official who spearheaded his plan to reverse his election loss in Georgia.
The accusations that Donald Trump faces in the middle of his campaign
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Special counsel Jack Smith accuses him of undermining the foundations of American democracy by trying to tamper with the vote count in the presidential elections.
Trump He is accused of “conspiracy” against the US State to obstruct an official procedure, that is, the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 to certify the victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
“Despite losing, the defendant was determined to remain in power,” the indictment states.
White House files
Leaving the White House, Trump he took boxes full of documents, despite the fact that a 1978 law requires all US presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives. The same thing that Joe Biden did when he was vice president of Barak Obama, although justice seems not to persecute him as his adversary.
In January 2022 Trump returned 15 boxes. But federal police estimated that the former president likely had more at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Subsequently, FBI agents carried out a search, following a court order, for “withholding classified documents” and “obstructing a federal investigation”, and confiscated about thirty more boxes.
Accused of endangering the security of the United States, Donald Trump he was indicted at the federal level in early June, something unprecedented for a former US president. He appeared in federal court in Miami, where he pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges.
The case is being investigated by the same prosecutor who charged him in the investigation into the assault on the Capitol.
The Stormy Daniels Case
Trump he was indicted for having “orchestrated” payments to silence three people whose revelations could have hurt him in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, which he ultimately won.
Specifically, he is accused of paying $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged extramarital affair dating back to 2006.
These payments are not illegal but the apparent problem is that Trump wrote them down as “legal fees” in his company’s accounts, the Trump Organization. As a consequence, he faces 34 charges for “falsification of accounting documents”.
The former president, who appeared before the New York court on April 4, pleaded not guilty. The trial is pending.
Convictions in New York
In January, the Trump Organization was sentenced in New York to pay a fine of up to 1.6 million dollars for tax and financial fraud. It is a criminal case but she expects another civil case in a few months.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has filed a lawsuit against Trumptheir children and the Trump Organization.
He accuses them of having “deliberately” manipulated the value of the group’s assets – which include golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties – to obtain more advantageous loans from banks or reduce taxes.
It claims $250 million in damages on behalf of the state, as well as that the former president and his relatives be prohibited from running companies.
FOUNTAIN: With information from AP and AFP
