Trump indictment updates: Former president, 18 others indicted in Georgia
Former President Trump has been indicted for a fourth time.
After a two-and-a-half-year probe, a Fulton County grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
It marks the fourth indictment of the former president, who already faces federal charges in the special counsel's Jan. 6 and classified documents probes, as well as the Manhattan DA's hush money case. Prior to Trump, no former or current president had ever been indicted.
Top headlines:
Meadows, Giuliani among those charged
Among those indicted were some of Trump's closet advisers, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump's one-time personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Trump, others 'joined a conspiracy' to overturn results, says indictment
"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's introduction says.
"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," it says.
Trump, 18 others charged in 2020 election probe
Former President Donald Trump and 18 others have been indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, according to court documents.
Indictment returned in Georgia election probe
A Fulton County grand jury has handed up an indictment related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, according to multiple sources.
A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis declined to comment.
Indictment spells out alleged 'false elector' scheme
The alleged enterprise, including "several" of the defendants, created "false Electoral College documents" and recruited individuals to cast "false Electoral College votes" at the Georgia State Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, and then transmitted those votes to the president of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. archivist, the Georgia secretary of state, and the chief federal judge in Atlanta, the indictment says.
"The false documents were intended to disrupt and delay the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in order to unlawfully change the outcome of the November 3, 2020, presidential election in favor of Donald Trump,” says the indictment.