The charges, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, add to the legal woes facing Trump, the frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
Prosecutors have brought 11 charges against Trump and his associates, including forgery and racketeering, which are used to target members of organized crime groups.
Prosecutors have charged 18 other people, including Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.
The case stems from a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump urged Georgia’s top election official, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to reverse his small loss in the state. Raffensperger refused to do so.
Four days later, on January 6, 2021, and two weeks before Trump left office, his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a failed attempt to block lawmakers from certifying Biden’s victory.
Willis also investigated an alleged Trump campaign scheme to subvert the U.S. electoral process by submitting fake voters lists, people who make up the electoral college that elects the president and vice president.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and accuses Willis, an elected Democrat, of being politically motivated.
The court briefly posted a document on its website Monday listing several felony charges against Trump, but quickly deleted it without explanation. Willis’ office said at the time that no charges had been filed and declined to comment further.
Trump has already pleaded not guilty in three criminal cases.
He faces a trial in New York state starting March 25, 2024, involving silent payment to a porn star, and a trial in Florida starting May 20 in a federal classified documents case. In both cases, Trump pleaded not guilty.
A third indictment, in federal court in Washington, charges him with unlawfully seeking to undo his 2020 election defeat. Trump also denies wrongdoing in the case, and a trial date has yet to be announced. been fixed.
Georgia, once a reliably Republican, has become one of the few politically competitive states that can determine the outcome of presidential elections.
Trump persists in falsely claiming he won the November 2020 election, despite dozens of court cases and state inquiries finding no evidence to support his claim.
