The 19 defendants have until next Friday, August 25, to voluntarily surrender, Willis told reporters late Monday night. Willis’ indictment also went well beyond what transpired in Georgia as she used racketeering violations to charge a broad criminal conspiracy. Smith had only charged the former president in his indictment earlier this month, even as he listed six co-conspirators. It marks a key departure from special counsel Jack Smith’s charges against Trump for election subversion. The indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis included 18 defendants in addition to Trump, 41 charges in total and 30 unindicted co-conspirators. In a previous post, Trump had called the indictment a 'witch hunt.'įormer President Donald Trump on Monday was criminally charged for the fourth time this year in a sweeping Georgia indictment accusing him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!' Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social. Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others - There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey. 'A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. That's just days before Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said the former president and his co-defendants must surrender on August 25. The news conference will take place at 11 a.m. Drew Angerer/Getty Imagesįormer President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will hold a 'major news conference' next Monday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during which he will present a report from his team regarding his false claims that the presidential election results in Georgia were rife with fraud. history to be indicted, is also facing criminal charges in Florida over his handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to obstruct the investigation, as well as in New York in connection to hush money payments made to women during his 2016 campaign.Then-President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in September 2020. Trump, the first former president in U.S. 'The Georgia election was not stolen and I had no right to overturn the election on January 6th,' he said this week. For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward - under oath - and prove anything in a court of law,' Kemp wrote on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.įormer Vice President Mike Pence, whom Trump had tried to pressure to unilaterally overturn the results of the election and who is now challenging Trump for the Republican nomination, echoed that message. 'The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. Brian Kemp, whom Trump had tried to lobby as part of his efforts to overturn his loss in the battleground state. Trump's renewed attacks on the integrity of Georgia's vote this week drew swift criticism from state's Republican Gov. Still, Trump has made clear that he sees the cases brought against him in Georgia and Washington as an opportunity to try to relitigate his false claims. 'I will take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity of the case,' she said.

While such rhetoric animates his loyal base, it alienates more moderate and independent voters and is also often criticized in interviews by longtime Trump supporters, who say they feel it's time to move on. In Georgia, the state at the center of his latest indictment, three recounts were conducted after the election - each of which confirmed his loss to Biden.Īdvisers have long urged the former president to spend less time airing his grievances about the 2020 election as he runs for reelection and more time focused on his plans for the future. The former president's allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed. He had said he would use the 'major News Conference' at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Monday morning to release what he claimed was an 'almost complete' report that would exonerate him.įederal and state election officials and Trump's own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence that the election was tainted. Trump had announced that he would be holding the event hours after a Georgia grand jury voted to charge him and others late Monday in what they allege was a sweeping conspiracy to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the peaceful transition of power. Politics The Georgia indictment charges a 19-member 'criminal enterprise.' Here's who they are

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