Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted

Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted after a 2-year-long investigation for meddling in the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden in the US state of Georgia.

According to the report of the foreign news agency “AFP”, this case is the fourth case against the 77-year-old Republican leader Donald Trump this year under the laws against those who incite the crowd, as well as the first case of a former president in American history. There is also a vision trial.

Prosecutors in Atlanta have charged Donald Trump with 13 felonies, adding to the legal risks he faces in a number of cases, an investigation that threatens his dream of re-running for president. is given

Eighteen co-defendants have been indicted in the investigation, including Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who lobbied local lawmakers after the election, and Mark Meadows, Trump’s White House chief of staff.

The former US president is also set to face trial in New York, South Florida and Washington, with the latest indictment raising the specter of the 2024 presidential election.

Fulton County Prosecutor Fannie Willis told reporters that instead of following Georgia’s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal conspiracy to alter the results of Georgia’s presidential election.

Fannie Willis said Donald Trump and his associates have until the afternoon of August 25 to make an arrest to authorities, adding that she would like to go to trial in six months.

Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform ‘Truth’ that ‘the impeachment game is going on, it’s rigged to me, why didn’t they indict two and a half years ago? Because they wanted to do it in the middle of my election campaign, it’s a deliberate game’.

On similar charges during the former president’s election campaign, prosecutor Fanny Willis said, “I make decisions here based on the facts and the law, the law is completely neutral.”

Trump, who has been impeached twice, is charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as six counts of attempted forgery, impersonating a public official and submitting false statements and documents. have been imposed.

They are also accused of lying in their statements and filing fake documents, as well as demanding that government officials break their oaths.

Accused of meddling in elections in the state of Georgia

Atlanta officials launched the investigation after Donald Trump called Georgia officials weeks before he left the White House and pressed them to “find” the 11,780 votes that led to Biden’s defeat in the Peach State. cause of

Prosecutor Fannie Willis in a confidential report in February previously selected a special grand jury in the felony trial that heard about 75 witnesses.

The indictment lists telephone calls made by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others to various state officials with the purpose of illegally appointing fraudulent electors to sway the Electoral College in Trump’s favor. was

Rudy Giuliani faces 13 felony counts, including charges of harassing two Fulton County poll workers.

Donald Trump and his associates were charged in 2021 with accessing sensitive data from an election office in a rural county south of Atlanta a day after the Capitol riots.