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 II, 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

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

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  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    Hunter is facing some federal tax and gun charges right now. Not that it matters, he’s not an elected official. It also says something about Joe’s character that he’s not threatening judges & prosecutors, or pardoning Hunter, like a certain someone else would do.

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        There is no way that the DoJ would’ve issued an indictment the same year that Garland decided to investigate Trump. These cases have been long in the making. When you swing for the king, you better not miss. They only had one shot at this, and they needed everything to be in order. That takes a lot of time.

        Look at it this way – these indictments have all come out relatively soon after each other. It took time to put the cases together, and that’s why we’re seeing the cases all produce indictments around the same time.

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          No, these prosecutors were clearly afraid of what would happen and no one wanted to be first. When NY signalled they would go first, it drew all the attention away from the others.

          The NY case is not as devastating as the others but the state fucking hates Trump so much they wanted to do it. It’s hard for Trumpers to think about multiple things at once, so the NY case will take a lot of heat for the others.

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            Through, imagine if they rushed to bring charges against trump and made a serious mistake in the paperwork or in trial. The trial could have been dismissed or mistrialed and then trump and his cronies would have fuel to fight against any further charges.

            Any charges prosecutors brought against Trump needs to be 100% fool proof, because they are presenting it to fools.

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      Also these things he’s charged with are minor in the grand scheme of things and would have been quickly pled out, if the Republicans hadn’t made a mountain out of a mole hill.

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        Did you read the indictment? Their acts are spelled out in the titles alone for creating a group of people to perform a coup. These are not minor.

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          This thread is also about Hunter (who’s charges are minor and normally wouldn’t be an issue — except that the R’s think dragging Hunter through the mud some more it might make Trump look cleaner)

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      And the gun charge is something that’s usually not prosecuted. A possibly unconstitutional law.

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      Don’t suppose you’ve heard about the investigator in Ukraine who was investigating Burisma Ole Joe got fired right before releasing American funds to support them. Nope. No pay to play going on here at all. Look! Orange man bad!

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        Who gives a fuck? Throw Biden in jail with Trump if he’s guilty of a serious crime. I don’t care about any of those bastards, fuck them all.

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        Are you just accusing your enemies of the very thing your diaper don was impeached over? Pretty standard tactic. Yes, orange man is bad, as anyone with eyes can see.

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          Pretty standard tactic.

          Yeah. Like accusing your enemies of your crimes. Russian collusion much? How’d all that work out for ya?