Donald Trump was indicted Monday evening, August 14, by a Georgia grand jury for seeking to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. This indictment complements that carried out on August 1er August in Washington by Special Federal Prosecutor Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Donald Trump for his coup attempt during the assault on the Capitol, January 6, 2021. More than two and a half years after the facts, American justice is on the real stuff.
For a long time, Mr. Trump was prosecuted for cases revealing his behavior, but which could appear secondary: his indictment this winter by a Manhattan prosecutor for having bought in 2016, in violation of the electoral law, the silence of a prostitute, Stormy Daniels; his federal indictment for taking classified documents from his golf course in Mar-a-Lago, Florida after his defeat.
Now, justice is at the heart of the reactor, with two charges that describe the reality of Trumpism: an attempted coup (this is the federal charge of Jack Smith), carried out by a quasi-mafia group, a ” business “. This is the particularity of the charge brought in Georgia by prosecutor Fani Willis. The latter resorted to the Georgian version of the Racketeering and Corruption Motivated Organizations (RICO) Act. This federal law of 1970 was used to fight against the mafia and organized crime. And it’s a ” business “ criminal described by the prosecutor. “RICO is a tool that allows the prosecutor to tell the whole story”explained M.me Willis on Monday shortly before midnight during a brief press conference.
” Defendant Donald Trump lost the US presidential election held on November 3, 2020. One of the states he lost was Georgia. Trump and the other defendants refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willingly joined in a conspiracy to illegally alter the election results”begins the indictment, which then describes “the company”.
Thirteen counts
Donald Trump is being prosecuted with eighteen co-defendants, including his former adviser Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, who appears to have been the hub of the plot, and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The former president is entitled to thirteen charges out of a total of forty-one for the whole group. The investigation was extensive and revealed around thirty additional accomplices, who were not charged, no doubt because of their collaboration with the justice system. The maximum penalty is twenty years in prison. These charges also carry a minimum sentence of five years, unlike the other trials for which Mr. Trump is summoned.
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