Donald Trump was indicted yesterday in Georgia for his marketing campaign to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election on this US state, the place he misplaced to the winner of that election, Joe Biden. Georgia was one of many battleground states the place the outcomes had been very shut and tipped the election in favor of the Democratic candidate.
The previous US President was accused together with 18 different individuals -Trump’s allies on this campaign- of a criminal offense plot organized by totally different actions after figuring out the results of the polls: Lobbying Georgia officers, harassing ballot staffcreation of a false record of electoral delegates or the unlawful penetration of information from an electoral workplace.
Among the many defendants are well-known figures near Trump, such because the one who was his private lawyer and nice supporter of this marketing campaign, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York; or his chief of employees on the finish of his presidency, Mark Meadows. But additionally unknown characters, like David Shafer, one of many individuals who volunteered to be pretend delegates.
Trump had already obtained three expenses up to now this 12 months: in New York, for funds to hush up an extramarital affair with a porn actress earlier than the 2016 elections; in Miami, for the withholding of tons of of categorized paperwork that he took from the White Home to Mar-a-Lago, her residence on the Florida coast; and in Washington, for his makes an attempt to reverse the 2020 election end result that ended with the tragic and embarrassing assault on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
