He former president of USA, donald trump, and 18 other people were accused by try to alter the result of the elections of 2020 in the state of Georgia. This is the fourth indictment for the favorite to win the presidential candidacy of his Republican Party in 2024.
The accusation foresees sentences of between 5 and 20 years in prisonby the law in force in Georgia on the organized gang crimewhich is often used against gangs, with which the fiscal of district Fulton County, fanny willischarged the 19 defendants.
In turn, the prosecutor announced that she was giving them up to August 25th “to surrender voluntarily” to the Justice of the southeastern state of the North American country.
“Witch hunt!“, wrote Trump on your social network TruthSocial in reference to the judicial decision on the 2020 elections, in which he was defeated by the president Joe Bidenof the Democratic Party.
“Sounds rigged to me! Why didn’t they indict me two and a half years ago? Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign“Added the businessman about the accusation.
The prosecutor said she wanted to try all 19 defendants, including the former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and his lawyer staff, Rudy Giulianiin the same judgment “in six months“, but it is the judge who sets the date.
Although will win the 2024 presidentialIf i were sentenced, could not be pardoned nor have the prosecution drop the charges, because it is a case in the courts of the state of Georgia, about which the federal state has no authority.
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The new charges would be related to the way in which they performed maneuvers to keep trump in power. The accused in the accusation They refused to accept that the president lost in 2020and who voluntarily joined the conspiracy for change illegally he result of the elections in favor of the tycoon.
“The indictment alleges that, rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a organized crime to annul the result of the presidential election“, he added.
The indictment contains a total of 41 chargesincluding: false statements, usurpation of public office, Documents forgery and use of false documents, pressure on witnessesa series of Cybercrime either including perjury.
The investigation began with a January 2021 phone call – the recording of which has been made public – in which Trump asked a local official, brad raffenspergerthat “will find” nails 12,000 tickets in his name what was missing to win the 16 electors of Georgia.
Before the indictment, the former president attacked the prosecutor again in a statement in which he described her as “rabid partisan“at the service of interests of the Democratic President Biden.
Donald Trump was also accused by three other cases: for allegedly attempted conspiracy to alter the result of the 2020 election in Washington; by negligence In the management of confidential documents in Florida; and of course hidden payments to an old porn actress to buy his silence, in a court of NY.
Source: Ambito
