ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 29: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election at Erie Insurance Arena on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Trump was indicted again Monday in connection to his efforts to overturn Georgia’s election results.Fulton County DA Fani Willis charged the former president with 13 crimes including racketeering.18 other defendants were charged in addition to Trump. Here’s what we know.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants with charges including racketeering, conspiracy, and making false statements in her wide-ranging investigation into efforts to overturn Georgia’s election results in the 2020 election.
All told Willis’ indictment alleges that Trump and several of his campaign advisors and political operatives orchestrated a plan to pressure Georgia election officials to “find” votes to reverse Joe Biden’s win, and schemed to send fake electors to Congress on January 6, 2021, to falsely install him as president.
In February, the foreperson for the Fulton County grand jury, who heard months worth of witness testimony told CNN, that the amount of recommended indictments was “not a short list.”
More than 75 witnesses were called before the grand jury throughout the probe, per CNN. Ultimately, the grand jury decided to charge the following people in addition to Trump:
2 Republican activists who signed fake Elector Certificates: Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer and former Coffee County GOP chair Cathleen Latham
Former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Cheseboro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Ray Smith III
Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows
Former Trump staffer Michael Roman
Georgia attorney Robert Cheeley
Former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still
Police chaplain Stephen Lee
Harrison Floyd, a leader with the organization Black Voices for Trump
Trevian Kutti, a Chicago publicist for Kanye West
Dallas attorney Sidney Powell
Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman and Fulton County Republican poll watcher
Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the case and in a statement on Monday night said in part: “A left-wing prosecutor – with such extreme anti-Trump bias that EVEN CNN questioned her legitimacy – has INDICTED me despite having committed NO CRIME.”
Willis also elected to prosecute Trump and his allies with racketeering charges — a charge initially created to prosecute the mafia — which holds the harshest prison sentence among the laundry list of charges.