Former President Donald Trump was recently indicted on Monday in Georgia for his alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election. It has come to light that prosecutors used statutes normally seen in mob trials and accused the former president of being head of ‘a criminal organization’ via Daily Mail.
Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, secured the 41-count indictment from a grand jury on Monday, and told a press conference the indictment alleged ‘violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the election in this state.’
Trump called her ‘an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney’, and declared that the charges were part of a ‘witch hunt’.
It is noted that the case which is relying on laws typically used to bring down mobsters, is the fourth targeting the 77-year-old Republican this year and could lead to a watershed moment, the first televised trial of a former president in US history.
He was charged along with 18 others – Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Cheseboro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall and Misty Hampton.
Willis said she wants to try them all at the same time. They have until noon on August 25 to turn themselves in, or else an arrest warrant will be issued. There are also 30 ‘un-indicted co-conspirators’ – people accused of being part of the plot but not named or charged.
John Dean, who served as Richard Nixon’s White House counsel before turning and testifying against him, helping to bring him down, told CNN that the allegations against Trump were ‘much more serious than Watergate.’
