Georgia grand jury hands up 10 indictments in Trump 2020 election investigation

The Georgia grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State handed up 10 indictments Monday night.

After approximately 10 hours of hearing testimony and voting on potential charges, the bill was presented to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who signed off on the charges shortly before 9 p.m.

Hours earlier, the court clerk’s office appeared to prematurely post the potential charges Trump was facing in the case.

That docket included 13 counts against the 77-year-old former president, including violation of the Peach State’s anti-racketeering law, conspiracy, false statements and asking a public official to violate their oath of office.

It was unclear when the actual indictment would be unsealed by the clerk’s office, nor was it immediately known whether Trump or his key allies like former Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be charged in the case.

Keeping track of all of Trump’s indictments

Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a number of charges following his time in office.

Here are all of the legal troubles Trump will face as he heads toward the 2024 election.

Mar-a-Lago classified docs

• Trump is the first former president to receive a federal indictment.

• Trump is accused of taking around 11,000 documents, some containing sensitive national security secrets, and hoarding them in a haphazard manner at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate.

Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’

• Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury in March over “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
• The former president is accused of falsifying business records in connection with the payments
• Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she claimed the two had.
• Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and is trying to have the case moved to federal court.

2020 election overturn bid

• Special counsel Jack Smith charged the ex-president with four counts in connection with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
• Prosecutors charged that the 45th president’s incessant claims of election fraud costing him re-election “were false and [Trump] knew they were false.”
• The indictment is the second brought by Smith against the 77-year-old Trump.

The grand jury had been anticipated to sit Monday and Tuesday, but pushed through its agenda quicker than expected. At least one witness, independent journalist George Chidi, tweeted that he was initially told to come to the courthouse Tuesday, was called in Monday afternoon, and dismissed without having to testify.

The Trump campaign blasted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as a “rabid partisan,” likening her to other prosecutors that have brought charges against Trump since leaving office. 

“Like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Deranged Jack Smith, and New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County, GA’s radical Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments,” the Trump campaign said in a statement released Monday night. 

“Ripping a page from Crooked Joe Biden’s playbook, Willis has strategically stalled her investigation to try and maximally interfere with the 2024 presidential race and damage the dominant Trump campaign. All of these corrupt Democrat attempts will fail,” the statement continues. 

Willis has been leading the investigation against the former president and his associates in Georgia, which the Trump campaign derided as the “latest coordinated strike by a biased prosecutor in an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction.” 

This is a developing story