{"id":2001320,"date":"2023-08-15T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-raffensperger-says-accountability-is-a-principle-of-strong-democracy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:55:21","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-raffensperger-says-accountability-is-a-principle-of-strong-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-raffensperger-says-accountability-is-a-principle-of-strong-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Raffensperger: Trump&#8217;s indictment promotes strong democracy through accountability."},"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\">16<\/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-raffensperger-says-accountability-is-a-principle-of-strong-democracy%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=2001320&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>Republican Georgia Secretary \u2063of State \u2064Emphasizes Accountability in Strong Democracy<\/h2>\n<p>In a \u200bpowerful statement, Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger highlighted \u200cthe importance of &#8220;accountability&#8221; as \u2063one of the fundamental principles of a \u200brobust democracy. This statement comes on the heels of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s indictment \u200con racketeering charges in Fulton County, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger, who oversees elections\u200d in the Peach State, released this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-raffensperger-says-accountability-is-a-principle-of-strong-democracy\/\" title=\"Raffensperger: Trump's indictment promotes strong democracy through accountability.\">statement approximately 12 hours<\/a> after Trump&#8217;s \u2064indictment\u200d by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-official-who-pulled-knife-on-trump-supporters-indicted-on-weapons-charges-media-tries-to-frame-him-as-victim\/\" title=\"Democrat Official Who Pulled Knife On Trump Supporters Indicted On Weapons Charges; Media Tries To Frame Him As Victim\">grand jury<\/a>. \u200cThe charges\u2063 stem from Trump&#8217;s\u2064 alleged efforts to overturn the\u2064 2020 election using Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Indicted: Georgia Grand Jury Charges Ex-President and Others in \u200cSweeping RICO Case<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The most basic principles \u200dof a \u2063strong democracy are accountability and \u2063respect for the Constitution\u2064 and rule of law. You \u2064either have it, or you don&#8217;t,&#8221; Raffensperger emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been a vocal critic of Raffensperger since\u200d the secretary of state refused to overturn the 2020 \u200celection results in Georgia, allegedly at \u200cTrump&#8217;s request.\u200b In the \u200d2022 Republican primary, the former president endorsed Jody Hice as a challenger to Raffensperger. However, Raffensperger\u200b convincingly defeated Trump&#8217;s candidate and was reelected in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Trump faces 13 counts in the indictment, alongside attorneys Rudy\u2063 Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell, as\u2064 well as\u200c former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. A\u2063 total of 19 individuals were indicted in connection \u200cwith the <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'.\">alleged racketeering scheme<\/a>, with the charging document also mentioning around 30 unnamed co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click \u2062here<\/a> to read more from\u2063 The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney \u2063Fani \u2063Willis, speaking at a <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.\">late-night press conference<\/a>, stated\u2062 that Trump and his co-conspirators were working towards the &#8220;illegal goal of allowing\u200b Donald J. Trump to seize the\u200d presidential term of office beginning on Jan. 20, 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response\u200b to the charges, the former president took to Truth Social early Tuesday morning, denouncing them as part of an ongoing &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221; conducted by \u2062an &#8220;out of\u2062 control and very corrupt District Attorney.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger emphasized the importance of &#8220;accountability&#8221; in a &#8220;strong democracy.&#8221; This statement followed the indictment of former President Donald Trump on racketeering charges in Fulton County, Georgia. Raffensperger, responsible for elections in the Peach State, released the statement approximately 12 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001321,"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-2001320","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\/2001320","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=2001320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}