A grand jury in Georgia voted to indict Donald Trump on Monday, along with more than a dozen of his allies, for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, marking the fourth criminal case leveled against the former President this year and the second related to his efforts to stay in power.
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00:00 Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating Georgia's
00:08 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act through participation in a criminal enterprise
00:18 in Fulton County, Georgia and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing
00:25 Donald J. Trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on January 20, 2021.
00:34 Specifically, the participants in association took various actions in Georgia and elsewhere
00:43 to block the counting of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified
00:49 as the winners of Georgia's 2020 general election. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by
01:00 Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering
01:07 enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election result. Subsequent to the indictment,
01:15 as is the normal process in Georgia law, the grand jury issued arrest warrants for those
01:21 who are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later
01:29 than noon on Friday, the 25th day of August 2023. Do I intend to try the 19 defendants in this
01:38 indictment together? Yes.