Fulton County prosecutors brought 10 counts to a grand jury against former President Donald Trump on Monday in the case of manipulation of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia, in the United States.
The grand jury will have to decide whether he will become a defendant, starting to respond judicially, or not for the case.
The documentation indicates that the grand jury did not vote against any of the indictments filed. However, the paperwork also does not list any defendants by name.
It is also not clear how many of the accusations are directly related to the election investigation. Reuters says the charges listed in the document included extortion, perjury, publication of false documents and conspiracy.
The information was confirmed to the press by a Fulton court official, Che Alexander. The documents must be analyzed within three hours, Alexandre’s office told the CNN .
After the analysis, a press conference by the prosecutor Fani Willis, who coordinates the team of prosecutors that presented the ten charges, will be held.
She is expected to seek a grand jury indictment this week.
Charges taken from the court’s website
The Fulton court briefly posted a document listing the various criminal charges against Trump, but shortly thereafter removed the document without explanation.
The document was dated Aug. 14 and quoted Trump as calling the case “open.”
The county attorney’s office said in a statement that no charges have yet been filed against the former president.
The Fulton County Courthouse said in a statement that no documents were filed on Monday concerning the grand jury reviewing evidence in the case.
The court described what it called “a fictitious document that has been circulating online,” without specifying whether it was the one that listed the criminal charges against Trump.
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Indicted for the fourth time?
Trump — who is leading the race to be the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election against incumbent President Joe Biden — has already been criminally indicted three times this year, including a lawsuit by Special Counsel Jack Smith, accusing him of trying to change the result of the last elections.
The former president classifies the investigations and also the two impeachments he suffered in the Chamber of Deputies as a “witch hunt”.
If Trump is charged in Georgia, it would be his fourth indictment in less than five months, and his second over attempts to manipulate and subvert the 2020 poll results.
Trump’s lawyers said the episode “is not a simple administrative error”.
“This is emblematic of the widespread and egregious constitutional violations that have marked this case since its inception,” attorneys Drew Findling, Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg said in a statement.
*With information from Reuters
Source: CNN Brasil
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