Trump vows to fight Georgia indictment accusing him and 18 others of conspiring to overturn 2020 election

Donald Trump has vowed to fight his fourth indictment, issued yesterday by a Georgia grand jury charging the former president and 18 others with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 

The charges stem from an investigation that was conducted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, for more than two years.

In addition to the former president, others faced charges include former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, attorneys Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Ray Smith, Robert Cheeley, and a slate of alternate “fake” Trump electors.

Thirty others were listed as unindicted co-conspirators, according to NBC News.

“Nineteen people were indicted, and the whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden,” the former president told Fox News Digital late Monday evening.

The former president and his chief of staff are accused of conspiring to direct longtime aide John McEntee to stall the Jan. 6, 2021 congressional certification of then-Democrat President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

“The racist and corrupt district attorney of Fulton County, which has turned out to be a murder capital of the world with among the highest violent crime levels anywhere in our country, just opened a fundraising site in order to benefit off the things she most campaigned on, ‘I will get Donald Trump,’” he said of Georgia prosecutors.

Trump blasted the indictment as “a continuation of the greatest and longest-running witch hunt in American history."

“This politically-inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my political campaign, where I am leading all Republicans, by a lot, and beating Joe Biden soundly in almost all polls,” he said.

“Just like she has allowed Atlanta to go to hell with all of its crime and violence, so too has Joe Biden allowed the United States of America to go to the same place with millions of people invading our country, inflation, bad economy, no energy, and lack of respect all over the world,” he added.

All 19 defendants, including the former president, were also charged with racketeering under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as the RICO Act. The charge is often used by federal prosecutors as a legal tool to tackle organized crime.

Trump also faces conspiracy charges and various counts of soliciting a public official to violate their oath of office. The District Attorney also charged the former president with allegedly making false statements to state legislators and officials.

Other charges were centered around the Trump cohort’s plans to allegedly interfere voting machines and install a slate of so-called “false electors.”

“Today, based on information developed by investigation in Fulton County, a grand jury returned a true bill of indictment,” Willis said after the charges were made public at 11 p.m. EST.

Willis also announced she issued arrest warrants for the former president and the other 18 defendants and that they were expected to surrender voluntarily by Aug. 25.

She said prosecutors were planning on developing a trial schedule that would start proceedings in six months. The Georgia prosecutor said she plans to try all 19 defendants concurrently in the same case.

The indictment against Trump mirrors those erroneously posted, then immediately deleted before the grand jury concluded proceedings.

A website for Fulton County announced the criminal charges against the former president, but then immediately deleted them, according to a report published by Just the News.

The indictment, which is a whopping 98-pages, accuses the purported conspirators of engaging in a broad plan, identifying more than 160 acts as part of the racketeering scheme.

Prior to the president's comments to Fox News, a Trump campaign statement called the charges “bogus.”

“Fulton County, GA’s radical Democrat DA Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments," the statement read.

“Ripping a page from Crooked Joe Biden's playbook, Willis has strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign. All of these corrupt Democrat attempts will fail.”