Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 15 remaining defendants [7] in the indictment [8] and some of the allegations against them [6] are: . Donald Trump, former U.S. president, 13 felonies.Alleged organizer and leader of a criminal enterprise which attempted to fraudulently overturn the results of presidential elections in Georgia and six other states.
Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump claimed through a series of tweets that widespread voter fraud was imminent, a sentiment echoed by his legal advisor, Rudy Giuliani. [8] Trump repeated the accusations throughout his presidency and into his 2020 reelection campaign ; for months, he prepared arguments in the event of his loss ...
Following Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, an outside advisor to Trump known as Kenneth Chesebro began drafting a plot to purport Trump supporters as electors. [4] [5] Chesebro justified the plot using precedent set in the 1960 United States presidential election, by certifying a slate of electors declaring Trump the winner. [6]
Four of the 18 people charged alongside former President Donald Trump with participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia have now ...
Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who participated in the so-called fake electors scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election argued at a hearing Wednesday that their cases should be ...
Feb. 15—ATLANTA — The State Election Board has referred 35 cases of election-law violations to the attorney general or local district attorneys for criminal prosecution. "Election fraud is not ...
Although the convicted politicians are arranged by presidential terms in chronological order, many of the crimes have little or no connection to who is president. Since the passage of 20th Amendment on January 23, 1933, presidential terms have begun on January 20 of the year following the presidential election; prior to that, they began on March 4.
Another lawyer who advanced Trump's false election-fraud claims, Ellis pleaded guilty in October in the Georgia election-fraud case and has agreed to testify against the former president.