Iran Press/ America: Donald Trump was indicted in Georgia for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump and those indicted this week by a Georgia grand jury will be detained at an Atlanta jail. The defendants have until noon on August 25 to surrender, according to Willis, after which they will be booked at the Fulton County Jail, as per the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that "Failed D.A. Fani Willis, who has allowed Atlanta (Fulton County) to become a record-setting Murder and Violent Crime War Zone, with almost no retribution, shockingly indicted your favorite President, me, for a PERFECT PHONE CALL. She is bad for America!"
The probe is investigating into Trump's phone discussion with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021, just after it was revealed that Trump had lost the state to Joe Biden. Trump allegedly requested fellow Republican Raffensperger to redo the vote count.
Trump, alongside 18 of his allies, is facing a racketeering indictment that lists 161 "overt acts" allegedly committed as part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election - 12 of those are tweets from Trump's own Twitter account.
The charges by the state of Georgia cite a tweet by Trump on December 3, 2020, that advertised an election fraud hearing convened by the state legislature and broadcast on the far-right TV network OAN.
Back in July, Trump vowed that he would continue to run for the presidential race if he gets convicted for any of the charges he faces, noting that nothing in the Constitution states that getting sentenced would stop him from campaigning.
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