Former President Donald Trump was charged in a sweeping indictment in Georgia on Monday . The Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis used racketeering violations to charge a criminal enterprise to overturn the election . The indictment included defendants in addition to Trump charges in total and unindicted coconspirators . It marks a key departure from special counsel Jack Smiths charges against Trump for election subversion . Trump is now facing four separate indictments at the same time that he is running for president in 2016 . Former House chief of White House staff Mark Meadows and former White House lawyer Rudy Giuliani are also facing charges related to subversion of election results . The defendants have until next Friday August to voluntarily surrender Willis told reporters late Monday night that she plans to try the defendants together . The charges include making false statements, forgeries impersonating officials computer breaches and attempts to influence witnesses . Trump’s attorneys slammed the indictment saying the charges were ‘one-sided and absurd’ The indictment also highlighted the effort to organize fake electors in Wisconsin Arizona and other states in Georgia as well as other White House official Mark Meadows . Rudy Giuliani was listed as a coconpirator in the indictment as a key defendant in Mondays indictment . Donald Trump has the most charges of any other defendant in his indictment . Trump has been accused of trying to cover up his alleged actions in a federal court appearance. The indictment is also accused of using a federal indictment of a federal prosecutor in the federal indictment. The case is a federal trial in New York and federal court in New Orleans. The federal trial. The trial is scheduled to take place in October. The jury is expected to conclude in November. The defendants are scheduled to face a trial in October October. In November. It is a trial for a federal
Takeaways from the Georgia indictment of Donald Trump and 18 others .
