Defeated, former President Donald Trump has been charged on 13 counts in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
Eighteen other defendants, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, have been charged on 28 additional counts. Also charged were Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis along with John Eastman who was the key figure in unlawfully organizing an alternate slate of electoral college delegates.
This is the next phase of a process which began when Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis launched an investigation in February 2021, one month after Trump's "perfect call" with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding he "find" 11,780 votes to overturn President Biden's victory in the Peach State in the 2020 election.
Aside from charges being brought concerning calls Trump made to Raffensperger and other Georgia state officials and the alternate electoral college delegate scheme, there are charges pertaining to false statements, efforts by Trump's team to breach voting data in Coffee County and the harassment of election workers.
This is now the fourth set of indictments with which Trump has been charged this year. Trump was first charged in March by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on 34 counts of falsifying business records. In June, Trump was charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith with 37 counts of mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago which was superseded by three additional counts last month including willful retention of a top-secret document concerning military plans in Iran. Earlier this month, Smith also charged Trump with four counts pertaining to the events of January 6th.
Trump could stand trial on the January 6th charges as early as January 2024 while the New York case is scheduled to begin in March 2024 while the classified documents case trial is slated to commence in May 2024. Given the large number of defendants involved, it very much remains to be seen when everyone will be arraigned let alone when trial dates will be scheduled. Of course, it is entirely possible that some of these defendants might have something to say concerning Trump thus resulting in lesser charges or charges being dropped altogether.
Notwithstanding all these charges, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee next year and we might be just foolish enough him to elect him President once more.
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