Georgia indictment of Donald Trump
On August 14, 2023, former U.S. president Donald Trump was charged in Georgia on 13 counts in connection with his attempt to overturn the Georgia results of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden.
The indictment by a Fulton county, Georgia, grand jury represents the fourth indictment of the former president. The other indictments include:
- A March 2023 indictment in New York on charges of falsifying business records to keep damaging information from the American public in advance of the 2016 presidential election. This has become known as the Stormy Daniels case.
- A June 2023 federal indictment in Florida that charged Trump on counts related to his alleged mishandling of government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
- An August 2023 federal indictment for actions related to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, including the events of January 6, 2021.
The two cases involving federal charges were pursed by special counsel Jack Smith.
In addition to Trump, 18 others were charged in the Georgia case, which is the result of a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis. The 41 total charges involve violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Among the others charged were former New York City mayor and Trump personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, conservative lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk John Eastman, and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Willis said she will be prepared to go to trial within six months, but the timetable for these and the other cases involving the former president and 2024 presidential candidate remains unclear. In February 2024, Trump’s legal team sought to have Willis disqualified from trying the case, citing a relationship with a fellow attorney as being improper conduct.
Read the 98-page indictment here.