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Fani Willis has brought the indictment against former President Donald J. Trump and his inner circle that special counsel Jack Smith could have brought if he had been given more time from Attorney General Merrick Garland to make his case.
Willis, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, has charged Trump and 18 co-defendants—including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sydney Powell, John Eastman—with a 41 count indictment alleging that they conspired to form a criminal enterprise under Georgia’s racketeering statute to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election. In total, the indictment lists 161 “overt acts”—steps taken in furtherance of the racketeering conspiracy.
These actions include the intimidation of election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss—who were wrongfully targeted by Trump and Giuliani with baseless claims of having stolen votes—as well as the plans to use so-called “false elector” slates to be substituted for the actual Electoral College electors that had been voted in by the people of Georgia.