Prosecutors used a statute typically associated with certain mobsters to charge the ex-president, attorneys, and other help of a kind of “criminal enterprise” to ensure his power position. On Monday, Donald Trump along with 18 of his allies was detained in Georgia over their attempts to reverse his election failure of 2020 in the state.
The almost 100-page accusation describes many actions taken by Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn their loss, including pleading with Georgia’s RSS to find him enough votes to ensure victory in the crucial state; exasperate an election official who was the target of bogus accusations related to fraud; and more.
Donald Trump Faces Criminal Allegations Yet Again!
It also describes a scheme using one of his attorneys to get access to voting equipment in a remote Georgia and steal information from an election system manufacturer in one especially blatant event. At a late-night news conference, FCDA Fani Willis stated that the accusation “alleges that Donald Trump engaged in a racketeering enterprise to reverse Georgia’s presidential voting result, rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges.”
The former chief staff of the White House Mark Meadows, former mayor of NYC and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and a Justice Department employee from the Trump administration named Jeffrey, who helped the then-president reverse his Georgia election loss, are also defendants. Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and Kenneth Chesebro were among the other attorneys who put out questionable legal arguments to get the verdicts overturned.
By noon on August 25, according to Willis, the defendants may voluntarily surrender. She said that she intended to try the accused all at once and that she would look for a date for the trial within 6 months.
