Donald J. Trump is faces felony counts in the State of Georgia regarding Trump and his allies illegally seeking to overturn the state’s election results.
If Trump is charged it will mark his fourth Indictment in five months and the second to arise from his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
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.
Among those named in the sweeping indictment, charged under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, architects of a scheme to create slates of alternate Trump electors.
Also indicted were two Georgia-based lawyers advocating on Trump’s behalf, Ray S. Smith II, and Robert Cheeley; a senior campaign adviser, Mike Roman, who helped plan the elector meeting; and two prominent Georgia Republicans who served as electors: former GOP chairman David Shafer and former GOP finance chairman Shawn Still.
Several lesser known players who participated in efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in Georgia were also indicted, including three people accused of harassing Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman. They are Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti. The latter is a former publicist for R. Kelly and associate of Kanye West.
A final group of individuals charged in the indictment allegedly participated in an effort to steal election-equipment data in rural Coffee County, Ga. They are former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton, former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and Georgia businessman Scott Hall.
9:30pm EST: Georgia Grand Jury returns 10 Indictments; Awaiting Unsealing
10:54pm EST: Trump indictment is unsealed
10:57pm EST: Former President Trump and 18 co-defendants have been charged altogether with more than 41 counts in Georgia’s 2020 election probe (19 Total Charged)
11:05pmEST: Fulton County DA will be speaking live.
11:05pm EST: Those charged Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Ray S. Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Mike Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Still, Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Misty Hampton, Cathy Latham, and Scott Hall
11:10pm EST: Read the full indictment
11:30pm EST: Awaiting Fulton County DA to speak
11:38pm EST: Fulton County DA press conference
11:45pm EST: Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis states that there will be no probation, and the minimum sentence is jail time.
She described the landmark indictment against Donald Trump and allies for attempting to alter the 2020 elections. Ms Willis said the indictment alleged a “criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state” which had “the illegal goal of allowing Donald J Trump to seize the presidential term of office.”
The prosecutor announced a deadline of 25 August for the defendants to turn themselves in.
11:50pm EST: All 19 will be tried together.
Sources:
Reuters: Georgia court website briefly publishes, removes document about potential Trump charges
Rolling Stone: Trump’s ‘Co-Conspirators’ Are Already Starting to Turn on Each Other
NBC News: Fulton County grand jury returns 10 indictments in 2020 election probe for Georgia
The Independent: Trump campaign launches sprawling attack as Georgia grand jury hands down indictments
MSNBC: Hillary Clinton tells Rachel Maddow: Trump indictments mean ‘the system is working’
Washington Post: Trump charged in Georgia 2020 election probe, his fourth indictment
Holy crap, they got Trump and the whole gang of criminal minions! 19 people in total including Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman…
I’m waiting for the 19 names. CNN is reading them off live. WOW
Here is the whole indictment:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23909551-23sc188947-criminal-indictment64
There’s only one dude who was charged with perjury. I looked him up because I wanted to know who was stupider than Trump. Even he knows not to lie under oath (if he can help it).
https://web.archive.org/web/20230815033531/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/us/trump-georgia-lawyer-robert-cheeley.html
Jenna Ellis … she’s been suspiciously absent from a lot of investigation and reporting … she dodged the DoJ (so far) and was only mentioned briefly in the Jan 6th Committee hearings.
Good to see that she hasn’t been missed off…
Did they get Sidney Powell? I noticed her name suspiciously absent from this post. I took note of it, then the first comment I see is yours saying they did. Been busty at work and only read a couple of short articles, none of them mentioned her name.
Yes. Counts 1, 32-37 according to the pdf of the indictment.
Edit:
Nice!
Read the first page or two of the actual indictment. It’s just the names and charges.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23909551-23sc188947-criminal-indictment64
I’m dying knowing Cheesebro is a real name and not made up.
Also, Kutti. I’m looking through their pics and I swear that they all look like their heads of a weird and corrupt mega church. Most of them have that fucked up pastor look.
I will. Thanks for the link.
She’s #16 on the list on page 2, count numbers 1 and 32-37.
1 is the big one, the RICO charge, that hits everyone.
32-37 are for her, 3 others, on Conspiracy to commit election fraud (32-33). Conspiracy to commit computer theft (34). Conspiracy to commit computer trespass (35). Conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy (36). Conspiracy to defraud the state (37).
It’s more than a little ironic that these morons are being charged with computer theft and trespass when Trump doesn’t even know how to use a computer.
🤣
He thinks he’s Zero Cool now.
She is indeed one of the 19 defendants.
Good. Cause, fuck that lady… in every way except the literal one.
I’ve never seen a DA nail so many balls to a wall in real life before. The rats can go down with Trump or turn on him. This is where it gets spicy.
There’s 30 unindicted co-conspirators … a good chunk of those appear to be the people that purported to be the legitimate electoral college delegates.
Pretty sure those who were going to flip on the others have done so at this point and they did so to avoid the indictment.
Nice seeing Meadows actually charged, after ducking the DoJ indictments on Jan 6th and his contempt of Congress.