The former US president has been charged along with 18 other people, including his former personal attorney and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, and his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. This is a criminal charge against you.
A Georgia grand jury has indicted former US President Donald Trump for manipulating the results of the 2020 election in that state, where Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won. Trump has been charged along with 18 other people, including his former personal attorney and former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
According to the nearly 100-page indictment document, the former president faces 13 charges, including inciting a government official to violate his oath or conspiracy to impersonate a government official.
But the main charge on which the indictment rests, and which all the defendants face, is violating the law against corrupt organizations in Georgia, which, if confirmed, requires a prison sentence to be served.
In a press conference after the news went public, the district attorney in charge of the case, Fani Willis, explained that the indictment “charges 19 individuals with violating the laws of Georgia with a criminal conspiracy to corrupt the results of the 2020 presidential election”. stands”.
The prosecution assured that it intends the 19 defendants to be tried at the same time, and while it has not given an estimate of when this trial may take place, it has confirmed that its office will try to make it happen. within the next six months.
Willis has explained that warrants have been issued for all of the defendants and they have until Friday, August 25 to “turn themselves in voluntarily”.
This is the fourth indictment Trump has received, and the second for attempted election interference.
Source: EITB
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