A grand jury seated in Georgia has indicted former President of the United States, Donald Trump, for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 US elections.
On Monday, Trump was charged alongside 18 others on 41 counts of felony racketeering and several other conspiracy charges.
Lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith, and other associates were named in the indictment, NBC News reports.
According to evidence presented by Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis, Trump and his allies had pressured Georgia officials during the election exercise to swing votes in the ex-president’s favour.
Trump was said to have called the Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” the votes he needed to beat Joe Biden.
He was also accused of “false statements and writings for several falsehoods about voter fraud in Georgia in his communications with Raffensperger, Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs and Georgia Secretary of State General Counsel Ryan Germany on Jan. 2, 2021.”
BBC / Titilayo Kupoliyi
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