{"id":2000687,"date":"2023-08-14T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:17:50","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicted: Georgia grand jury charges ex-president with RICO for 2020 election."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Grand Jury Indicts Donald Trump on Racketeering Charges<\/h2>\n<p>A grand jury \u200bin Georgia has delivered a\u2063 significant blow to former President Donald Trump. On\u200c Monday, Trump was indicted on racketeering charges related to the 2020 election. This marks the \u200dfifth indictment against Trump this \u2062year, across four separate\u2064 criminal cases. As the current frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination, these charges could have\u200b far-reaching implications for \u200bhis political future.<\/p>\n<h3>The Charges and the Prosecutor<\/h3>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the prosecutor behind these charges. Court filings reveal that Trump, along with 18 others, is facing a number of RICO violations. Willis began\u200b investigating Trump&#8217;s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in \u2064January 2021. After months of investigation, she convened a grand jury in May 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>The Grand Jury&#8217;s\u200d Findings<\/h3>\n<p>The grand\u2062 jury&#8217;s final report,\u200b released earlier this year,\u200d shed light on\u2062 the extensive nature\u2063 of the investigation.\u2063 The report stated that the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-county-prosecutors-have-another-recording-of-trump-pressuring-georgia-house-speaker-to-overturn-election-report\/\" title=\"Fulton County Prosecutors Have Another Recording Of Trump Pressuring Georgia House Speaker To Overturn Election: Report\">grand jury heard<\/a> from 75 witnesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-grand-jury-investigating-donald-trump-returns-10-indictments-but-no-names-yet\/\" title=\"Georgia grand jury indicts Donald Trump 10 times, identities undisclosed.\">including election workers<\/a>, technical experts,\u200d and individuals who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-ripped-for-bizarre-distortion-of-clarence-thomas-dissent-in-pa-election-case\/\" title=\"CNN Ripped For \u2018Bizarre Distortion\u2019 Of Clarence Thomas Dissent In PA Election Case\">claimed election fraud<\/a> had occurred. Shockingly, the report also suggested that some witnesses may have committed perjury, recommending further indictments for those individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of the report, grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs\u2062 made headlines with her media tour. While she did not name specific individuals, she hinted that\u200b charges \u200bwould be brought against a long\u200c list of people. This caused controversy, prompting the judge overseeing the grand jury to clarify that jurors could discuss the \u200dfinal report but not\u200c the deliberations.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversies Surrounding the\u2064 Case<\/h3>\n<p>The case took another twist when Reuters\u2063 published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted: Georgia grand jury charges ex-president with RICO for 2020 election.\">document listing \u200cnumerous felonies<\/a> against Trump. The document had allegedly been posted on Fulton County&#8217;s website but was quickly removed. Fulton County dismissed the document as &#8220;fictitious&#8221;\u2062 and assured \u200dthe media that \u200blegitimate filings would be promptly notified.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s attorneys seized on this development, claiming it demonstrated a lack of due process. They argued that\u200b the proposed indictment should have remained confidential within the\u200c District Attorney&#8217;s Office, rather than being leaked to the clerk&#8217;s office and \u200dassigned a case number and judge \u200dbefore the grand\u2063 jury had even deliberated. According to Trump&#8217;s attorneys, this \u2062is \u200bjust one example of the constitutional violations that have \u2063plagued the case\u200c from the beginning.<\/p>\n<h3>Multiple Indictments Against Trump<\/h3>\n<p>This\u200b indictment in Georgia is not the only legal \u2063battle Trump is facing. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged him\u200c in two federal cases, one in Florida and one in Washington, D.C. \u200cThe Florida \u200dcase alleges that Trump illegally held classified documents \u200dafter leaving office, while the \u200bD.C. case accuses him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Smith later \u200bfiled a superseding indictment in Florida, adding more felonies related to classified documents. Additionally, Manhattan District\u2064 Attorney\u200c Alvin Bragg has brought charges against Trump in New York, relating to \u2064a hush money scheme involving porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>With multiple indictments\u200b and legal battles \u2062on the\u2063 horizon, the future looks uncertain for Donald Trump.\u200c These charges could have significant implications for his political aspirations and\u2063 personal reputation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> \u2064to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was indicted by a Georgia grand jury for racketeering charges linked to the 2020 election. This marks his fifth indictment this year across four criminal cases. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought the charges, including various RICO violations, against the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}