Donald Trump has been criminally charged for a fourth time, this time over election subversion in Georgia as part of a potentially damning case for which he will not be able to pardon himself even if he becomes president.
: Donald Trump has been charged for a fourth time, this time over efforts to overturn presidential election results in Georgia.
“The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said during a press conference just before midnight on Monday .She added the defendants would have until “no later than noon” on Friday, August 25 to voluntarily surrender.
But the probe has also embroiled key members of Trump’s orbit, as well as lesser-known state Republicans accused of conspiring with them to keep Trump in power. The Georgia indictment is the fourth Trump has faced in five months, putting him on a collision course with the court system as his campaign to return to the White House intensifies.
After the indictment was unsealed, he issued a statement saying that “justice and the rule of law are officially DEAD in America”. And last week he was charged by Smith a second time, for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In that particular case he will also argue at trial that he is protected by America’s right to free speech, and that he genuinely believed that the 2020 election was rigged.
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