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This is OnPoint. I'm Deborah Becker.

A Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment.

Charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state.

That was Fulton County Georgia district attorney Fannie Willis on Monday announcing the indictment of former president Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators.

It was Trump's fourth indictment this year and the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year-long investigation.

What started the inquiry was a phone call.

On January 2nd, 2021, when Donald Trump called Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Reffensberger and urged him to quote, find the votes.

What I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we want the state and flipping the state is a great testament to our country.

It's just a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it if it was a mistake.

11,780 number. Well, in Georgia Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by a narrow margin of 11,779 votes.

Trump refused to accept those results and insisted without any evidence that election fraud was to blame.

Here's Trump in front of a crowd in Georgia on January 4th, 2021, just two days after that call with Reffensberger.

I want to thank you very much. Hello Georgia, by the way. There's no way we lost Georgia this no way.

That was a rigged election, but we're still fighting it and you'll see what's going to happen. We'll talk about it.

That same day, Democratic Congressional leaders asked the FBI to open a criminal probe into Trump over the Georgia phone call.

And in Fulton County, Fannie Willis officially began her tenure as District Attorney.

About a month later, Willis announced that her office was taking a look.

There's no way on January 4th we could have done a proper investigation, but I will give anyone that we're looking at the same courtesy, which is that we will look at them.

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