Official, jeffrey clark. The charge sheet refers to the defendants as a quote criminal organization. The Indictment Document says mr trump Knowingly And Willingly joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in georgia, and elsewhere. Its the fourth case brought against mr trump this year. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal, Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who were charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday, the 25th day of august 2023. The investigation into mr trump was sparked by a phone call between the former president and georgias Secretary Of State, brad raffe
Call starting with the claims from the former president about suitcases full of ballots. Mr trump also made claims about so called dead voters. Mr raffensperger did push back against mr trump in the call. And in the most pointed exchange,of the call trump spelled out how many voters he needed. Stephen loosley an analyst in us politics at the United States studies centre in sydney laid out the legal dilemmas mr trump now faces. It isa it is a very serious indictment for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a Racketeering Charge under Georgia State law, Racketeering Legislation is modelled on the originalfederal legislation designed to bring down the mafia. The problem that donald trump faces is generally a conviction under legislation in georgia leads to a prison sentence, Thatis Georgia leads to a prison sentence, that is not certain, but that is the probability, secondly, mark meadows, the former chief of staff in the Trump White House is amongst the
Of dissident republican groups. and spain take on sweden in the semi final at the women s world cup. the current score is 0 0. you re watching bbc news. more new on our main news donald trump has been charged with racketeering and a string of other offences, in the us state of georgia. the charges relate to his alleged attempt to overturn his presidential election defeat tojoe biden there in 2020. they carry a possible jail sentence of 20 years. at the centre of the investigation is a 67 minute call between the then president donald trump and georgia s republican secretary of state brad raffensperger. mr trump wanted him to overturn the state s election results citing debunked claims of election fraud. let s run through extracts of that
Players from australia play in the women s super league and they know each other very well, they want to beat us, we want to beat them, that is the competitiveness, and we will get in front of us tomorrow. the ca tain get in front of us tomorrow. the captain millie get in front of us tomorrow. the captain millie bright and manager talking from england. i have to tell you while we have been listening to those interviews, it has been very exciting. sweden scored one goal and equalised and we are watching the fan zone and that when absolutely wild. and then spain scored again to take the lead. as you can imagine, that fan zone weren t too happy. we have just been told, five minutes of injury time left. this world cup was promising to be one of the most exciting tournaments in women s sport, it is delivering, we will be
in auckland. spain have taken the lead, spain one l, spain have taken the lead, spain one l, we have live pictures coming through of fans watching the match there. 3 a through of fans watching the match there. ., through of fans watching the match there. . , , .,, there. a a few disappointed people in the audience. there. a a few disappointed people in the audience. you there. a a few disappointed people in the audience. you can there. a a few disappointed people in the audience. you can see - there. a a few disappointed people in the audience. you can see the i there. a a few disappointed people i in the audience. you can see the sun is shining. it is not like the great british weather. let s move on. more now on the women s world cup and the england team are preparing for the semi final against hosts australia tomorrow. manager sarina wiegman has been speaking at a news conference this morning and was asked what the team thinks about facing the australian underdogs .