A grand jury in Georgia has indicted Donald Trump for his role in a botched attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, accusing the former president of ordering the election to be rigged and the defeat overturned, foreign media reported

Fanny Willis, the district attorney who led the investigation, also subpoenaed 28 other people, including Rudy Giuliani; former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and a number of fictitious voters

The indictment follows a federal criminal case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice that also related to alleged interference in the 2020 elections in several states.

Accusations of attempted election fraud are coming from a growing number of US states as Trump campaigns for a new term.

According to a leaked statement from his campaign staff, “the timing of this latest indictment, orchestrated by a biased prosecutor in a predominantly Democratic jurisdiction, betrays the trust of the American people.”

Immediately after learning of this, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to attack the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, who testified later that day, advising him to “not testify before the Fulton grand jury. He also attacked prosecutor Fanny Willis. again.

The investigation was sparked by a phone call from Donald Trump in January 2021, the recording of which was made public, in which he asked a high-ranking local official, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” about 12,000 ballots by name that he was missing. to win that state’s 16 primary voters.

The charges will reveal “a series of illegal activities aimed at altering the results of the Georgia election: computer hacking, false statements, harassment, etc.,” Anthony Kreis, a law professor at the University of Georgia, wrote on social media.

If he wins the 2024 presidential election, if convicted, Donald Trump will not be able to pardon himself or get prosecutors to waive prosecution because this is a Georgia case over which the federal state has no jurisdiction.

The proceedings concern some of the facts covered by the August 1 indictment against Donald Trump in federal court in Washington for alleged illegal maneuvering during the 2020 election in seven key states, including Georgia. A court date has not yet been set.

The former president, who defeated his opponents in the primary election, is due to go on trial in March and May 2024. He will have to answer for the fact that he bought the silence of a porn actress in a court in the state of New York, as well as for a charge of negligence in the management of confidential documents in a federal court in the state of Florida.

In the past few months, Donald Trump has been impeached three times in different cases

The 70-year-old man is accused of election manipulation during the 2020 presidential election, careless handling of confidential documents and suspicious payments to a former porn actress.

The former president has pleaded not guilty to what he describes as a “witch hunt” under the Biden administration.

At a rally in New Hampshire, he suggested that numerous court hearings in the coming months related to these cases could prevent him from taking the field.

“I couldn’t go to Iowa or New Hampshire today because I’d have to sit in a courtroom with a prosecutor who brought me some shitty charges,” he imagined.

President Joe Biden refrains from commenting on his opponent’s legal troubles to avoid fueling accusations of his manipulation of the judicial system