This is a much bigger, wide-ranging indictment that includes Trump and 18 of his cohorts, including Rudy Giuliani (former Trump lawyer); John Eastman (who planned, promoted and assisted Trump in the fake electors scheme); Mark Meadows (former chief of staff); Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell (who pushed baseless claims of voter fraud); and others, plus 30 unindicted conspirators.
The indictment describes the group as "a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury."The indictment charges Trump with the following felony counts:
- Violating the Georgia RICO Act
- Three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by public officer
- Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer
- Two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree
- Two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings
- Conspiracy to commit filing false documents
- Two counts of false statements and writings
- Filing false documents.
Summary of all Trump's indictments:
FIRST Indictment: Falsifying financial records / hush money payoffs.
SECOND Indictment: Stealing classified documents / lying about them.
THIRD Indictment: Inciting riots at the Capitol after losing the election.
FOURTH Indictment: Sending forged documents to Congress (fake electors scheme); attempting to overturn his Georgia election loss in a phone call to Raffensperger telling him to "find 11,780" non-existent votes; intimidating election workers.
FIRST Indictment: Falsifying financial records / hush money payoffs.
SECOND Indictment: Stealing classified documents / lying about them.
THIRD Indictment: Inciting riots at the Capitol after losing the election.
FOURTH Indictment: Sending forged documents to Congress (fake electors scheme); attempting to overturn his Georgia election loss in a phone call to Raffensperger telling him to "find 11,780" non-existent votes; intimidating election workers.
Trump and the other criminal defendants must turn themselves in by noon on August 25.
Trump will be arrested, fingerprinted, and get a mug shot.
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