Former US President Donald Trump is facing charges related to his alleged attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia.
Together with 18 individuals, he has been formally accused of various offenses, including racketeering, as stated in a comprehensive 41-count indictment issued by a grand jury in Fulton County.

This indictment marks the fourth instance this year that Mr. Trump has faced criminal charges. Mr. Trump has consistently denied these allegations in all instances.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis initiated an investigation in February 2021 to look into claims of election interference involving Mr. Trump and his associates.

Among the individuals named in the indictment, which was issued late on Monday night, are former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former White House lawyer John Eastman, and a former Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark.

Mr. Trump, who is currently leading the Republican Party's contest to select its next presidential candidate, asserted that the investigation conducted by Democrat Fani Willis was driven by political motives.

A statement released by the Trump campaign characterized the district attorney as a "strongly partisan" individual who had lodged "baseless charges" as a way to disrupt the 2024 presidential race and undermine the influential Trump campaign.

The statement further mentioned, "This recent coordinated action by a prejudiced prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democratic jurisdiction not only breaches the confidence of the American public but also reveals the underlying intention behind their fabricated allegations."

Earlier on Monday, there was a state of bewilderment as a compilation of criminal charges against Mr. Trump was displayed on a Fulton County website even before the grand jury had cast their votes on the indictment's return.

The submitted document outlined that Mr. Trump was accused of racketeering, participating in a fraud conspiracy, and presenting false statements.
While a spokesperson for Ms. Willis labeled the document as "fabricated," no clarification was provided regarding its presence on the court's website.

Mr. Trump and his associates exploited the apparent administrative lapse to assert that the procedure was manipulated.

Federal prosecutors in Washington DC have already filed charges against Mr. Trump, accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election that he lost to President Joe Biden, a Democrat. This legal action extensively examined the activities of the Trump team in Georgia.

Ms. Willis' investigation is honing in on Georgia specifically, a pivotal battleground state in the US presidential election that Mr. Trump narrowly lost.

In a recorded phone call from January 2021, Mr. Trump was heard urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "locate" 11,780 votes, the exact number he would have needed to surpass Mr. Biden's count in that state.

Within this case, a minimum of eight "fraudulent electors" who endorsed a false certificate asserting that Mr. Trump had won the state's election have secured immunity agreements after cooperating with interviews conducted by Fulton County prosecutors.