Three high-profile defendants: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.Photo:Roy Rochlin/Getty; Sipa via AP; AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Roy Rochlin/Getty; Sipa via AP; AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Donald Trumpwasindicted for the fourth timeon Monday night after a Georgia grand jury examined his and his allies' efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. But the former president isn’t the only one to face charges in the probe.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also brought charges against 18others, including Trump’s former attorneysRudy Giuliani,Jenna Ellis, andSidney Powell, and his former chief of staff,Mark Meadows.
Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell help conduct a press briefing on Nov. 19, 2020, regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty
The indictment was unsealed late Monday night, following some 10 hours of grand jury testimony. The former president himself was charged with more than a dozen felonies, including filing false documents, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree and false statements and writings.
Others charged in the indictment, perThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, include Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still; attorneysJohn Eastman, Bob Cheeley, Ray Smith III and Kenneth Chesebro; former assistant U.S. attorney generalJeffrey Clark; GOP strategist Michael Roman; former Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton; former Coffee County GOP chairwoman Cathy Latham; Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall; publicistTrevian Kutti; Illinois pastor Stephen Cliffguard Lee; and Harrison Floyd, who served as director of Black Voices for Trump.
Giuliani was charged with 13 counts, including racketeering and false statements and writings.
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was one of Trump’s most visible lawyers and spent months hosting press conferences and appearing on television and in courtrooms to contest the results of the election.
A subpoena issued to Giuliani earlier in the investigation noted that he appeared before the Georgia state Senate in December 2020 and made “statements, both to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings, claiming widespread voter fraud in Georgia … using the now-debunked State Farm Video in support of those statements.”
“I’ve lost my name, I’ve lost my reputation, I’ve lost my sense of security, all because a group of people, starting with 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, deciding to scapegoat me and my daughter, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen,” Freeman said.
Giuliani has sinceadmitted that he made false statementsabout the women.
Also indicted on Monday was former Trump attorney Powell, who faces seven charges, including racketeering.
Powell was well-known for the bizarre conspiracy theories she publicly espoused about how Trump lost to Biden. On both television interviews and in press conferences, Powell detailed an alleged scheme of thousands of co-conspirators, involving the major political parties and lasting decades, in which voting systems in the U.S. actually had ties to the late Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez and were in fact secretly capable of switching, creating and destroying massive amounts of votes.
Sidney Powell, a former member of Donald Trump’s legal team.Mat Hayward/Getty
Giuliani is also defending himself against disbarment proceedings inWashington, D.C.andNew York, both in direct response to his false election claims.
Others indicted Monday include Ellis, another lawyer who unsuccessfully pushed Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud and became a lightning rod for controversy as Trump legal team racked up astring of failuresin the court.
source: people.com
