Trump Criminally Indicted For Fourth Time for Interference with 2020 Election
A Grand Jury has indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants for knowingly participated in a conspiracy to unlawfully manipulate the election outcome in Trump’s favor.
Trump surrendered at the Fulton County Jail on August 24th, 2023. Booked & released on $200,000 bond.
Donald Trump, along with several prominent allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jeffrey Clark, has been indicted on 41 counts in Georgia. The charges stem from their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The grand jury’s indictment argues that Trump and his co-defendants knowingly participated in a conspiracy to unlawfully manipulate the election outcome in Trump’s favor. The charges indicate that these individuals were unwilling to accept Trump’s loss and actively sought to alter the results of the election.
“Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment says.
This indictment, which also involves lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Ray Smith, accuses them of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) act.
Trump was personally 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.
The racketeering charge carries a sentence of five to 20 years, while a conspiracy conviction can result in a minimum sentence of one year in prison with a variable maximum sentence.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced arrest warrants have been issued for all 19 defendants. The individuals have been given until August 25 to voluntarily surrender.
Willis expressed her intention to try all 19 defendants together.