Trump indicted on 2020 election fraud charges in Georgia
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted in Georgia.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Tuesday, the 15th |
| 0:08.1 | of August, 2023. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, Trump indicted again. |
| 0:23.6 | Plus how Maui plans to rebuild, and another round of aid is heading to Ukraine. |
| 0:29.0 | A Georgia Grand Jury, late yesterday, indicted 2024 presidential candidate and former president |
| 0:41.8 | Donald Trump, along with several allies on conspiracy charges of trying to steal Georgia's |
| 0:47.3 | electoral votes from President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. |
| 0:52.1 | The indictment accuses Trump and others of a coordinated plan to have state officials |
| 0:56.6 | spike Biden's victory and hand the state to Trump. |
| 1:00.4 | Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis launched her investigation of Trump in February |
| 1:05.4 | of 2021. |
| 1:07.2 | Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating Georgia's |
| 1:15.0 | racketeer, influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise |
| 1:25.2 | in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald |
| 1:33.5 | J. Trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on January 20, 2021. |
| 1:42.2 | And this indictment has been expected since a special grand jury recommended charges in |
| 1:46.8 | February of this year. |
| 1:49.0 | Others indicted here include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and former White House |
| 1:53.6 | chief of staff Mark Meadows. |
| 1:55.9 | Much of the indictment centers on a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on state election workers, |
| 2:01.2 | along with the harassment that came from Trump falsely accusing poll worker Ruby Freeman of fraud. |
| 2:07.8 | Trump and others named in the indictment have until next Friday, August 25, to voluntarily |
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