The legal troubles of Donald Trump seem to be growing quite a bit. The state of Georgia's justice system has, in fact, charged the former President of the United States and 18 others on Monday in Atlanta for their suspected attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election in this pivotal state.
This marks the fourth criminal indictment in less than six months for Donald Trump, who is campaigning for the Republican primary to regain the White House in 2024. Fulton County's prosecutor, Fani Willis, invoked a Georgia law related to organized crime, typically used against gangs, carrying penalties ranging from five to twenty years in prison.
An Investigation Launched in 2021
Despite the outgoing president's defeat in Georgia in 2020, "Trump and the other defendants refused to acknowledge his loss and knowingly and deliberately participated in a conspiracy to unlawfully alter the election result in his favour," as stated in the indictment.
A grand jury convened in the capital of this south-eastern state approved this indictment after a day of witness depositions cited by the prosecution. This panel of citizen investigators was put together by F. Willis, who has been investigating this case since 2021, to determine whether there were enough grounds to charge Donald Trump, particularly for allegations of fraud and election interference.
The former White House tenant once again attacked the prosecutor in a statement from his campaign on Monday evening, calling her a "frenzied partisan" serving the interests of Democratic President Joe Biden. According to the statement, "Willis strategically slowed down her investigation to interfere as much as possible with the 2024 presidential race and undermine the dominant Trump campaign" in the polls, although his indictment was not explicitly confirmed.
A Suspicious Phone Conversation at the Centre
The investigation was triggered by a phone call in January 2021 from Donald Trump - whose recording was made public - in which he asked a high-ranking local official to "find" the approximately 12,000 votes in his name that he needed to win the state.
Even if he wins in 2024, if he is convicted, he cannot pardon himself or have the charges dropped by the prosecutor's office, as this is a matter within the jurisdiction of the state of Georgia, over which the federal government does not have authority. This procedure pertains to some of the actions outlined in the August 1st indictment of Donald Trump in a federal court in Washington for his alleged unlawful makeovers during the 2020 election in seven crucial states, including Georgia. The trial date has not yet been set.
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