{"id":2000831,"date":"2023-08-15T02:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:44:18","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicted, criticizes Georgia charges as &#8216;Witch Hunt persists&#8217;."},"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\">20<\/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-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues%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=2000831&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>Former\u200d President Donald Trump Slams\u200b Indictment on Racketeering Charges<\/h2>\n<p>In a\u200c fiery response to the indictment against him on racketeering\u2064 charges related to the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia, former President Donald Trump did \u200cnot hold back. In a Truth Social post early Tuesday morning, Trump labeled the charges as part of an ongoing &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221; orchestrated\u200d by an &#8220;out of control and very corrupt\u2062 District Attorney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;So, the Witch Hunt continues! 19 people\u2064 Indicated tonight, including the former\u200c President \u2064of\u2064 the \u200bUnited States, me, by an out of control and very corrupt District Attorney who campaigned and raised money on, \u200b&#8217;I will get Trump.&#8217; And what\u2063 about those Indictment Documents put out \u200dtoday, long \u2063before the Grand Jury even voted, \u2062and then quickly \u2064withdrawn? Sounds Rigged to \u200cme! Why didn\u2019t they \u200bIndict 2.5 years ago? Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my\u2062 political campaign. Witch Hunt!&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This\u200b statement echoes the sentiments expressed by Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign and attorneys regarding the\u2063 indictment in Georgia. The campaign denounced the charges as &#8220;election \u200binterference&#8221; even before\u2064 the charging document was unsealed. Trump&#8217;s legal team described the events surrounding\u2062 the indictment, \u200bincluding the\u200b premature release and subsequent removal of the charging document from the county clerk&#8217;s website, as &#8220;shocking and absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Indictment Details<\/h3>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted, criticizes Georgia charges as 'Witch Hunt persists'.\">late-night \u2064press conference<\/a>, outlined the allegations\u2062 against Trump and his co-conspirators. According to \u2063Willis, they were working towards the &#8220;illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump to seize the presidential term\u2062 of office beginning on January 20th, 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself was indicted on 13 counts, alongside prominent\u2064 figures such as attorneys\u200d Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman,\u2064 and Sidney Powell, as well as former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. The charging document also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-attorneys-for-ex-president-call-monday-events-shocking-and-absurd\/\" title=\"Attorneys for ex-president Donald Trump deem Monday's events 'shocking and absurd' following his indictment.\">mentioned approximately 30 unnamed alleged<\/a> co-conspirators, bringing \u2063the\u2062 total\u200b number of individuals involved in the alleged racketeering scheme to 19.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Trump has faced \u2064legal troubles this year. He has been indicted in three\u200b other jurisdictions, including Manhattan, Florida, and Washington,\u2064 D.C., on various charges related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-three-takeaways-from-former-presidents-third-indictment\/\" title=\"Key takeaways from Donald Trump's third indictment.\">business records falsification<\/a>, mishandling of\u200c classified documents, and attempts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<h3>2024 Presidential Primary \u200cand Potential Rematch<\/h3>\n<p>Despite\u2062 the ongoing legal battles, Trump remains the front-runner in the\u2062 2024\u200b Republican presidential primary,\u200b leading all\u2063 other candidates by a significant \u200dmargin of nearly 40%, according to \u2063the RealClearPolitics polling average. While most\u200d of his opponents in the Republican \u200cprimary have yet \u2063to address the latest indictment, \u200cwinning the GOP nomination would likely set the stage for a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/read-in-full-donald-trump-indictment-in-georgia-over-2020-election-interference\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted in Georgia for interfering in 2020 election.\">highly anticipated rematch<\/a> against President Joe \u200cBiden, the current front-runner on \u200dthe Democratic side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to\u2064 read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized the racketeering indictment against him in Fulton County, Georgia, regarding the 2020 election. He labeled the charges as another aspect of an ongoing &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221; by &#8220;an out of control&#8221; entity. This statement marks his first response since the indictment was revealed on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000832,"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-2000831","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\/2000831","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=2000831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}