The 98-page Fulton County, Georgia, indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others lists 41 counts related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The sprawling, of former President Donald Trump and 18 others lists 41 counts related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. All 19 defendants are charged with violating Georgia’s , and the remaining counts relate to an alleged variety of schemes to keep Trump in office after he lost the election.
Thirty additional unindicted alleged co-conspirators are mentioned in the indictment, but not identified.
The indictment contains charges ranging from intimidating a Fulton County election worker to submitting a fake slate of presidential electors to breaching election equipment
Some of those charged are familiar names, but others are less well-known.
The unsealed late Monday says Trump, his co-defendants and 30 unindicted co-conspirators « constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various » criminal activities with the goal of changing the election’s outcome in the former president’s favor.
Here’s what to know about the 18 allies of the former president facing state felony charges:Lawyers, campaign aides and administration officialsRudy Giuliani
A former federal prosecutor who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 through 2001, Giuliani faces 13 counts in the Georgia case. He was Trump’s personal attorney for more than half of his presidency and spearheaded the effort to, as he described it, find voter fraud, and as prosecutors claim, overturn the election.
The Georgia indictment alleges that Giuliani, « in furtherance of the conspiracy » to overturn the election, called the speaker of the Arizona House, and appeared before and tried to contact legislators in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan to convince them to « unlawfully appoint » presidential electors from their states.
Giuliani is also accused in the indictment of making false statements accusing election workers in Fulton County of stealing votes.
In a July interview with CBS News, Giuliani’s attorney Robert Costello described his client’s role in the aftermath of the election as « he [was] like the general of this army » of lawyers and others pursuing proof of fraud in the election.
In a statement to CBS News, Giuliani said the case « is an affront to American Democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system. »
« The real criminals here are the people who have brought this case forward both directly and indirectly, » Giuliani said.
Trump was also indicted Aug. 1 on federal charges related to his broader efforts to overturn the election. That indictment lists six unindicted co-conspirators, and Costello acknowledged to CBS News on Aug. 2 that a person identified as « Co-Conspirator 1 » « appears » to be Giuliani.
Prosecutors in that case described « Co-Conspirator 1 » as « an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that [Trump’s] 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not, » and someone Trump appointed to « spearhead his efforts going forward to challenge the election results. »Mark Meadows
He is the former White House chief of staff, and was on the Jan. 2, 2021, call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Meadows also allegedly attempted to observe the secretary of state’s audit of absentee ballots.
Meadows is portrayed in the indictment as a go-between for Trump and others involved in coordinating his team’s strategy for contesting the election and « disrupting and delaying the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. »
He is charged with two counts, one of which relates to the call with Raffensperger.
Meadows is against him in Fulton County be moved to federal court because the conduct alleged in the indictment took place while he was chief of staff. His lawyers also indicated in a court filing on Tuesday that they plan to file a motion to dismiss the charges.
« Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President, » they wrote. « One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things. »John Eastman
He’s a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and is a conservative attorney who was a key contributor to planning by Trump allies to contest the election. The indictment claims Eastman sent an email suggesting « that the Trump presidential elector nominees in Georgia needed to meet on December 14, 2020, sign six sets of certificates of vote, and mail them ‘to the President of the Senate and to other officials.' » Eastman did not reply to a request for comment.
He faces nine counts relating to the alleged plot to send the fake slate of electors to Congress, which the indictment says were intended to « disrupt and delay the joint session of Congress » on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to alter the outcome of the 2020 election.
Eastman’s attorney, Charles Burnham, criticized the indictment and said those charged were engaging in political, not criminal, activity.
« Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy, » he said in a statement. « This is a legal cluster-bomb that leaves unexploded ordinance for lawyers to navigate in perpetuity. Dr. Eastman will challenge this indictment in any and all forums available to him.
