August 14, 2023 - Trump indicted in Georgia 2020 election subversion probe

There are 19 people charged in the Georgia case, according to the indictment.

Donald Trump, former US president

Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyer

Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff

John Eastman, Trump lawyer

Kenneth Chesebro, pro-Trump lawyer

Jeffrey Clark, top Justice Department official

Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign lawyer

Robert Cheeley, lawyer who promoted fraud claims

Mike Roman, Trump campaign official

David Shafer, Georgia GOP chair and fake elector

Shawn Still, fake GOP elector

Stephen Lee, pastor tied to intimidation of election workers

Harrison Floyd, leader of Black Voices for Trump

Trevian Kutti, publicist tied to intimidation of election workers

Sidney Powell, Trump campaign lawyer

Cathy Latham, fake GOP elector tied to Coffee County breach

Scott Hall, tied to Coffee County election system breach

Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor

Ray Smith, Trump campaign attorney

There are 19 defendants, including Trump, in the Georgia election indictment.

The indictment in the Trump election case in Georgia has been unsealed.

The indictment is 98 pages.

An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former President Donald Trump on state charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State. 

The historic indictment is the fourth criminal case that Trump – who is currently leading the Republican field in the 2024 White House race – is now facing.  

The charges, brought after a sweeping investigation led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, covers some of the most egregious efforts by the former president and his allies to subvert the 2020 election. The grand jury met for roughly 10 hours Monday before handing up charges. 

Unlike the election subversion charges brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, Willis’ case will be insulated from any potential Trump interference if he is reelected in 2024. He will not be able to pardon himself or his allies of any state convictions, nor will he be able to order Fulton County Fulton County to dismiss the charges.

CNN’s Jared Formanek, Fabiana Chaparro, Morayo Ogunbayo, Macie Goldfarb, Shirin Faqiri, Jim Rogers, Heather Law contributed to this story.

The grand jury indictment should be unsealed shortly, a source familiar with the matter said. 

Fulton County court clerk Che Alexander told reporters she is "almost done" processing the indictment. At least one indictment is related to the 2020 election probe, two sources told CNN.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to speak soon after the unsealing.

Fulton County court clerk Che Alexander told reporters there was “one indictment” related to the Trump election case and that it involves multiple defendants.

At least one of the indictments is related to the 2020 election probe, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

Hillary Clinton reacted to the news of the Georgia grand jury returning indictments in an interview on MSNBC Monday night.

"Well, it's hard to believe, I don't feel any satisfaction. I feel great, you know, just great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive," Clinton said.

"We'll wait to see what the indictments themselves say because clearly this investigation has been very thorough, but I don't know that anybody should be satisfied," Clinton said. "This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes. The only satisfaction may be that the system is working. That all of the efforts by Donald Trump, his allies, and his enablers to try to silence the truth to try to undermine democracy have been brought into the light and justice is being pursued."

Speaking on holding Trump accountable, she said, "I hope that we won't have accountability just for Donald Trump and if there are others named in these indictments along with him for their behavior but we will also have accountability for a political party that has just thrown in with all the lies and the divisiveness and the lack of any conscience about what has been done to the country."

While the grand jury hearing the Trump case has returned indictments, details of who may be charged are not yet known.

The Trump campaign is accusing prosecutors of election interference in a statement tonight.

“Fani Willis is a rabid partisan,” the campaign said in the statement, going on to call the indictments “bogus.”

While the grand jury hearing the Trump case has returned indictments, details of who may be charged are not yet known.

“The timing of this latest coordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes true motivation driving their fabricated accusations. They could have brought this two and half years ago, yet they chose to do this for election interference reasons in the middle of President Trump’s successful campaign,” the statement said in part. 

“These activities by Democrat leaders constitute a grave threat to American democracy and are direct attempts to deprive the American people of their rightful choice to cast their vote for President. Call it election interference or election manipulation—it is a dangerous effort by the ruling class to suppress the choice of the people. It is un-American and wrong,” the statement said.