{"id":2000790,"date":"2023-08-15T01:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:17:37","slug":"grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and allies indicted in Georgia election case by Grand Jury."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgrand-jury-returns-indictment-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies%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=2000790&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 Trump and \u2063Others in Georgia Criminal Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>A Fulton County, Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nursing-director-may-face-prison-for-allegedly-making-fake-coronavirus-vaccine-cards\/\" title=\"Nursing Director May Face Prison for Allegedly Making Fake Coronavirus Vaccine Cards\">grand jury returned<\/a> a 98-page\u200c indictment\u2062 on Monday night\u2062 in the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-wray-hearing-attention-turns-to-merrick-garland\/\" title=\"After Wray hearing, focus shifts to Merrick Garland.\">criminal \u200binvestigation<\/a> into former President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-made-up-quotes-wapo-ripped-for-reporting-fraudulent-trump-quotes-on-call-with-ga-investigator\/\" title=\"\u2018They Made Up Quotes\u2019: WaPo Ripped For Reporting Fraudulent Trump Quotes On Call With GA Investigator\">alleged efforts<\/a> to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies\/\" title=\"Trump and allies indicted in Georgia election case by Grand Jury.\">41-count indictment charges 19 individuals<\/a>, including Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Stallings Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Mike Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Micah Tresher Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall, and Misty Hampton.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton \u200bCounty District Attorney \u2064Fani Willis pursued charging individuals\u2062 under Georgia\u2019s\u200c RICO Act which allows prosecutors to \u201cstring together crimes committed by different people toward one common\u200c goal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/14\/trump-georgia-rico-charges-fani-willis\">reported<\/a> Axios, which \u200dmakes it very difficult for defense attorneys to implement a \u201ccoherent trial strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy prison \u2062sentences that come with being convicted of RICO violations are \u201ca major incentive for co-defendants to seek deals in return\u200b for new evidence,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>In the state of Georgia,\u200d the governor does not have the ability to pardon convicts, that power rests with a Board of Pardons and \u200bParoles, which requires that a sentence be completed at least \u2063five years prior to applying for a pardon, \u200cthe report added. A U.S. president would\u200b not be able to pardon Trump \u2062in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The case can also\u2062 be broadcast on television so the public is able \u2064to witness \u200dall the evidence that is being presented.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bTrump campaign released a statement that called Willis a \u201crabid partisan who is\u200d campaigning and fundraising on a platform \u2064of \u200dprosecuting President Trump \u2062through \u200dthese \u200dbogus indictments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement claimed that Willis \u201cstrategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign\u201d and that the \u200baccusations contained in it were \u201cfabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement blasted the indictment as \u201celection interference or election manipulation\u201d and said \u2063that Trump used his First Amendment rights to challenge what he has claimed was a \u201crigged and\u200b stolen election that the Democrats do all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This report has been updated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-collapses-ahead-of-senate-trial-top-lawyers-out\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump\u2019s Impeachment Defense Team Collapses Ahead Of Senate Trial, Top Lawyers Out\">include additional information<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 98-page indictment was returned by a Fulton County grand jury in Georgia, accusing 19 individuals, including Donald Trump, of 41 counts related to the alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The list includes Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Ray Stallings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2000791,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2000790","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}