Former president and his associates are accused of putting pressure on Republican officials in the state to ‘find’ additional votes to reverse election loss
Donald Trump has been criminally indicted in Georgia for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in that state, the fourth set of charges he has faced in as many months and the second related to his attempt to illegally cling to power.
The state-level charges come the same month as a federal indictment of Mr. Trump for trying to overturn the election and sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. He also faces a federal case over his handling of classified documents and New York state charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star.
Georgia was the closest state in the 2020 presidential election, won by Democratic contender Joe Biden by a margin of fewer than 12,000 votes. It is also a place in the middle of a political sea change: Once solidly conservative, it has become increasingly competitive because of an influx of new residents to Atlanta and its suburbs.
The actions in Georgia were part of an effort by Mr. Trump and his associates to reverse Mr. Biden’s victory in several key swing states. The plan was to have state legislatures, members of Congress and then-vice president Mike Pence throw out the election results and accept the slates of fake electors to tilt the electoral college to Mr. Trump.
Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert at Harvard University, said such a defence would be “ridiculous.” The charges against the former president don’t relate to his speech itself but to the effort to overturn the election that he was promoting. Ms. Willis has been investigating Mr. Trump for more than two years. A Democrat, she was elected district attorney for Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, in 2020.
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