Trump and 18 others indicted in Georgia for conspiring to overturn 2020 election result
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis, were indicted Monday for alleged violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 general election win in Fulton County, Georgia, the Washington Examiner reports. This is the fourth indictment brought against the former president in less than five months.
The 41-count indictment was handed down by a Georgia state grand jury in Atlanta following a lengthy investigation led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The investigation was triggered after a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on January 2, 2021, asking him to help “find 11,780 votes” needed to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment reads.
“That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states,” the indictment says.
Others named as defendants include Robert Cheely, an Atlanta lawyer; Stephen Lee, an Illinois police chaplain; Harrison Floyd, an executive director of Black Voices for Trump; Scott Hall, a 2020 Fulton County GOP poll watcher; Ray Smith III, a lawyer who represented Trump’s election challenges in Georgia; former Trump staffer Michael Roman; Shawn Still, a fraudulent elector and current Georgia Senate member; David Shafer, a fraudulent elector and the former chairman of Georgia’s GOP; Trevian Kutti, a Chicago-based publicist who represents Kanye West; Cathy Latham, a fraudulent elector and the chairwoman of Coffee County’s GOP in Georgia; and Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections director, the Washington Examiner reported.
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