Donald Trump indicted: Former president slams Georgia indictment as ‘longest-running Witch Hunt in American history’
Julia Johnson
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Former President Donald Trump slammed his latest indictment from a grand jury in Georgia as “a continuation of the greatest and longest-running Witch Hunt in American history.”
In a late-night interview with Fox News following the revelation that Trump was named in the 19-person indictment and charged with 13 counts, he said, “The whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden.”
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Trump suggested the indictment’s timing is particularly suspicious, as he is in the middle of his 2024 presidential campaign, and the Republican caucuses and primaries begin in five months. “This politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my political campaign, where I am leading all Republicans, by a lot, and beating Joe Biden soundly in almost all polls.”
Maintaining his claim that the 2020 election was illegitimate, he said District Attorney Fani Willis “should focus on the people that rigged the 2020 presidential election, not those who demand an answer as to what happened.”
He further criticized Willis, calling her “racist and corrupt.” The former president added it’s “not even conceivable that a person with such a record of failure could be allowed to interrupt perhaps the most important election in the history of our country.”
Trump compared Willis to Biden, taking a shot at her record as district attorney.
“Just like she has allowed Atlanta to go to hell with all of its crime and violence, so too has Joe Biden allowed the United States of America to go to the same place with millions of people invading our country, inflation, bad economy, no energy, and lack of respect all over the world,” he said.
Trump and co-conspirators — including Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and an attorney; John Eastman, an attorney; Mark Meadows, former Trump chief of staff; Ken Chesebro, an attorney; Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official; Jenna Ellis, an attorney; Ray Smith III, an attorney; Robert Cheeley, an attorney; Mike Roman, a Trump campaign official; David Shafer, former Georgia GOP chairman; Sidney Powell, an attorney; Misty Hampton, a Coffee County elections supervisor; Shawn Still, an illegitimate elector; Stephen Lee, a pastor; Harrison Floyd, former executive director of Black Voices for Trump; Trevian Kutti, Kanye West publicist; Cathleen Latham, an illegitimate elector; and Scott Hall, poll watcher — were accused of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as “RICO.”
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The latest indictment from the Georgia grand jury marks Trump’s fifth indictment in four criminal cases this year.
In a press conference late Monday night, Willis said defendants charged will have until noon local time on Aug. 25 to report to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia. She also indicated she plans to try all 19 defendants at once.