With Fourth Indictment Released, Trump Now Faces 91 Criminal Charges
Trump and 18 others named in 41-count indictment. Georgia document mentions as many as 30 additional co-conspirators (currently unindicted) also alleged to have been involved.
Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey (2010-2018), August 14, 2013:
If he’s indicted in Atlanta . . . We will have the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president out on bail in four different jurisdictions . . . When are we going to stop pretending that this is normal?
Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner, Washington Post, August 14, 2023:
Former president Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia on Monday in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment made public late Monday night.
Trump was 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 historic indictment, the fourth to implicate the former president, follows a 2½-year investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis. . . .
A total of 41 charges are brought against 19 defendants in the 98-page indictment. Not all face the same counts, but all have been charged with violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Willis said she has given those charged until Aug. 25 to surrender.
Jim Newell, Slate, August 15, 2023:
It is Trump’s fourth indictment (with one superseding indictment thrown in for good measure). . . .
All 19 defendants . . . were hit with the very first count: violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act. Willis said that she intended to try all 19 defendants together and hoped to take the case to trial within the next six months.
The indictment lists 41 total felony counts; Trump himself was charged with 13 felony counts. In addition to the communal racketeering charge, the charges include “solicitation of violation of oath by public officer,” “conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer,” “conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree,” “conspiracy to commit false statements and writings,” and “conspiracy to commit filing false documents.” . . .
“Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November 3, 2020,” the indictment reads, introducing the racketeering count. “One of the states he lost was Georgia. 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. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.”
Its account of the conspiracy spans 161 acts across that period of time laying out the case.
WATCH: Fani Willis — Full Press Conference
Illiterate sociopath uses the word “indicated” instead of “indicted” for (at least) the second time.
