On Monday night, former President Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in a broad indictment over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The indictment, brought against Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, accuses the former president of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” for his efforts to change election results in the state.
Willis is bringing a total of 41 charges against Trump and those named on the indictment. There are also 30 unindicted co-conspirators named.
Trump is facing 13 charges himself, including violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, filing false documents, and more.
The indictment went beyond what Trump and the others named on the indictment did in Georgia, as Willis used racketeering violations to charge a broad criminal conspiracy.
The 19 people named on the indictment include Trump; Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani; White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows; Trump lawyer, John Eastman; pro-Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro; Justice Department official, Jeffery Clark; Trump campaign lawyer, Jenna Ellis; lawyer who promoted fraud claims, Robert Cheeley; Trump campaign official, Mike Roman; Georgia GOP chair and fake elector, David Shafer; fake GOP elector, Shawn Still; pastor accused of intimidating election workers, Stephen Lee; leader of Black Voices for Trump, Harrison Floyd; publicist accused of intimidating election workers, Trevian Kutti; Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell; fake GOP elector tied to Coffee County breach, Cathay Latham; tied to Coffee County election system breach, Scott Hall; Coffee County elections supervisor; Misty Hampton; and Trump campaign attorney, Ray Smith.
“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,” the indictment states. “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.”
The defendants have until next Friday, Aug. 25, to voluntarily surrender, Willis shared late Monday night with reporters.
Willis also shared during the press conference that she plans to try the 19 defendants together.
This is now the fourth time this year that Trump has been indicted by a grand jury. The last was earlier this month by special counsel Jack Smith, who was investigating the former president’s efforts to stay in office.
In total, the former president is fighting 91 criminal charges. He faces 34 counts in his Manhattan hush-money case, 40 in his classified documents case, 4 in his election subversion case, and 13 in the Georgia election meddling case.
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