Donald Trump, former President of the United StatesEuropa Press
A grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia (United States) has Former President Donald Trump and 18 others have been indicted for attempting to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. The charges have been filed following an investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis, for the “continuous” attempts by the former president and several of his partners to change the results of the vote, as published by the American chain CNN.
The prosecutor’s office that has been investigating this case since 2021 has assured that it intends for the trial to take place “within six months”. In addition, 1 have been issued9 arrest warrants and the defendants have until Friday, August 25 to turn themselves in to justice in this state, assure several American media. Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and his ex-assessor, Mark Meadows, are among the defendants.
Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were charged in Georgia Monday evening with a serious crime — racketeering — in connection with their efforts to overturn that state’s election results in 2020.
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Donald Trump’s campaign team has reacted with a statement in which they assure that the Georgia prosecutor’s office has a “rabid partisan” bias at the service of the interests of Democratic President Joe Biden.
fourth accusation
This is the fourth indictment that Trump has received, and the second for trying to interfere in the elections. Unlike the charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith, The former president could not pardon himself or his partners if he is guilty and be re-elected as president of the country as it is a state sentence.
Trump was already charged in March in the framework of the investigation against him for the alleged payment of a bribe to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and also faces 40 charges in the case of the classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home.