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A Georgia grand jury has indicted Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia — but the charges didn’t stop there. The grand jury also handed District Attorney Fani Willis indictments on 18 of Trump’s alleged co-conspirators in the “criminal enterprise” including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.

This is now Trump’s fourth indictment this year. Each has been for serious crimes, from campaign finance crimes, to putting our national security in peril, to conspiracy to defraud the United States and deprive Americans of their civil rights in pursuit of keeping himself in power after losing an election.

This indictment stands for the principle that serious violations of the law demand serious accountability—and that extends beyond the big names (Trump, Meadows and Giuliani) to the foot soldiers who allegedly took action on the ground to overturn the results of the election.

Making this indictment all the more significant: no president could pardon Trump for a conviction in Georgia, or command Georgia prosecutors to drop the case.

Georgia was central to Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election, and the facts have been established for quite some time:

*
On
Election
Day
2020,
Trump
announced
that
it
was
“clear
that
[he
had]
won
Georgia,”
despite
the
vote
count
not
being
finished
*
Trump
alleged
that
military
ballots
in
Georgia
were
“missing,”
when
they
were
not
*
Trump
publicly
targeted
Georgia
election
officials,
including
calling
Georgia
Secretary
of
State
Brad
Raffensperger
“an
enemy
of
the
people”
at
a
press
conference
*
Trump
falsely
claimed
that
poll
workers
in
Atlanta
had
hidden
“suitcases”
full
of
Biden
ballots,
and
then
counted
them
more
than
once
*
Trump
and
his
surrogates
including
his
chief
of
staff
Mark
Meadows
inundated
Georgia
residents
and
officials
with
disinformation,
and
had
Rudy
Giuliani,
Jenna
Ellis
and
John
Eastman
pressure
the
Georgia
legislature
to
ignore
the
state’s
popular
vote
(all
of
these
people
were
also
indicted
yesterday
in
Georgia)
*
These
election
lies
and
the
pressure
campaign
led
to
harassment
and
death
threats
against
two
Georgia
poll
workers,
as
well
as
Raffensperger
and
his
family
*
Then,
Trump’s
team
recruited
and
organized
a
group
of
Georgia
residents
to
serve
as
fake
electors,
to
purportedly
cast
the
state’s
16
Electoral
College
votes
for
Trump
even
though
the
state’s
actual
electors
had
cast
those
votes
for
Biden
*
And
finally,
Trump
called
Raffensperger
to
pressure
him
to
“find”
11,780
votes,
the
exact
number
needed
to
flip
the
state’s
vote
tally,
even
appearing
to
threaten
him
with
criminal
prosecution
if
he
did
not

The indictment lays out the criminal conspiracy’s breadth and danger, which go far beyond even the points we just laid out here.

It’s hard to overstate the damage that would have been done to our democracy if our country had let that extraordinary pattern of conduct go unchecked. It cannot be a happy day to see a former president facing a racketeering indictment, but for the good of our country, yesterday was a positive one.

Donald Trump violated both federal law and Georgia law with his scheme to overturn the 2020 election. We filed a criminal complaint laying out his and Meadows's violations of Georgia law on January 4th, 2021, two days before Trump’s scheme to overturn the election culminated in the attack on the Capitol.

We’ve been pushing for accountability since the very beginning of his presidency and for every single one of Trump’s crimes. Consider making a donation today to support this ongoing fight for justice, because it is not over yet. >> [[link removed]]If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

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Accountability for Donald Trump’s crimes may have been slow to come, but now it has come with a vengeance.

Convicting Trump and his allies of these crimes will not be easy, despite the staggering evidence in support. We’ll keep you updated on all of the important developments in the coming weeks and months.

Thank you,

Noah Bookbinder
President
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