{"id":2025834,"date":"2023-09-08T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-grand-jury-recommended-charges-against-lindsey-graham-former-gop-sens-report-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:11:00","slug":"ga-grand-jury-recommended-charges-against-lindsey-graham-former-gop-sens-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-grand-jury-recommended-charges-against-lindsey-graham-former-gop-sens-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Recommends Charges Against Lindsey Graham and Former GOP Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fga-grand-jury-recommended-charges-against-lindsey-graham-former-gop-sens-report-shows%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=2025834&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>Georgia Grand Jury Recommends Charges Against High-Profile Republicans and Donald Trump in Racketeering Case<\/h2>\n<p>A grand jury in Georgia has made \u200ca groundbreaking recommendation to charge 39 individuals, including prominent Republicans and former President Donald Trump, in a sweeping racketeering case. The charges stem from alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>An Atlanta judge recently released a 28-page grand jury report, which revealed that\u200c Fulton County District Attorney Fani \u200dWillis declined to charge several individuals, including one sitting and two former U.S. senators.\u200d However, Michael Roman, who was \u2064not\u2063 on the grand jury list, was still charged in the racketeering case, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-grand-jury-recommended-charges-against-lindsey-graham-former-gop-sens-report-shows\/\" title=\"Grand Jury Recommends Charges Against Lindsey Graham and Former GOP Senators\">grand jury recommended charging 21\u200b individuals<\/a> who were ultimately\u2063 not charged, including former Georgia \u2063Sens. David Perdue \u2064and Kelly Loeffler, South Carolina \u200dSen. Lindsey Graham, and former \u2063Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, Willis&#8217; indictment filed last month named 19 people, including Trump.<\/p>\n<p>All 19 co-defendants are facing \u200dvarious charges, \u200cbut\u200b they are all accused of participating in an \u2062alleged conspiracy to overturn the\u200b 2020 election results \u2064under Georgia&#8217;s version of the \u200bfederal RICO statute. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harrison-floyd-to-remain-in-fulton-county-jail-after-judge-denies-to-set-bond\/\" title=\"Harrison Floyd will stay in Fulton County Jail as bond request is denied by judge.\">anti-racketeering law<\/a> was designed to combat organized criminal enterprises, such as the mafia.<\/p>\n<p>All \u2064those \u2062named in Willis&#8217; indictment have pleaded not\u200c guilty. Willis intends to try the case as a \u200dwhole, although some defendants are pushing back, either\u200b seeking expedited trials or requesting a \u2063change of venue.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the defendants, including Trump&#8217;s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, are seeking to have their cases moved to \u200cfederal court. Meadows faces charges of violating Georgia&#8217;s anti-racketeering law and soliciting a public official to violate their oath.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys\u2062 Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell have filed requests to expedite their cases, aiming to face trial as early as November.<\/p>\n<p>Last \u200dmonth,\u2064 Trump was\u200b booked at the Fulton County Jail and took a mugshot, an \u200cunprecedented moment for a former U.S. president. His 2024 campaign quickly capitalized on the photo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rfk-touts-own-mugshot-following-praise-of-shrewd-trump\/\" title=\"RFK flaunts mugshot after praising 'clever' Trump.\">selling merchandise featuring<\/a> \u2064the mugshot and using the image to support his claims of election interference and political persecution.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1694271417371000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0PLikBYdCi-jK-0C-P9dx2\">CLICK HERE TO\u200d GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Willis indictment marks the fourth brought against Trump personally by state and federal\u200d prosecutors in as many months. The former president maintains \u200dhis \u200cinnocence, accusing the prosecutors of targeting him \u2062for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>These indictments have sparked a movement to remove Trump&#8217;s name from the\u200b 2024 ballot under the\u2063 14th Amendment, which prohibits former elected officials from running for office again\u2062 if they have &#8220;engaged in insurrection\u200c or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the\u2063 enemies thereof.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s campaign has dismissed this effort as an &#8220;absurd conspiracy theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia grand jury indicted 39 individuals, including prominent Republicans and ex-President Donald Trump, in a wide-ranging racketeering case. The 28-page report, released by an Atlanta judge, revealed the involvement of a current and two former US officials in alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2025835,"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-2025834","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\/2025834","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}