Trump and 18 Others Charged with Election-Related Crimes in Georgia

August 15, 2023

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by Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason.com

Latest Trump indictment alleges “racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result.” The last of the expected criminal indictments against former President Donald Trump has dropped. This one, which comes out of Fulton County, Georgia, relates to Trump’s attempts to influence Georgia officials to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election, as well as Trump and his allies’ wider scheme to publicize and prove voter fraud claims and to assemble a spate of alternate Electoral College electors who would cast votes for Trump rather than Joe Biden.

Trump and his associates are charged with 41 criminal counts overall, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to defraud the state, and violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.