Prosecutors in the United States have for the umpteenth time, charged Donald Trump over his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the US state of Georgia in the most damning indictment so far against the former President.
The charges, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday, add to the legal woes facing Trump, the frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the former president is already facing three other cases.
‘Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and wilfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,’ states the indictment issued by Willis’s office.
Willis said the defendants would be allowed to voluntarily surrender by noon on August 25.
She also said she plans to ask for a trial date within six months.
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The 98-page indictment names 19 defendants and describes numerous actions taken by Trump and his allies to overturn his loss in the crucial state. These actions include berating Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to secure enough votes to keep him in office, pestering officials with fictitious allegations of voter fraud, and attempting to convince Georgia lawmakers to disregard the will of the people and select a new slate of electors who support Trump.
It also outlines a scheme to tamper with voting machines in one Georgia county as well as steal data.
The document describes the former president of the United States, the former White House chief of staff, Trump’s lawyers and the former mayor of New York as members of a “criminal organization” who were part of an “enterprise” that operated in Georgia and other states – language that conjures up the operations of mob bosses and gang leaders.
Other defendants named in the indictment included former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; Trump’s lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman; and a Trump administration Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, who advanced his efforts to undo his election loss in Georgia.