18 others, including his then chief of staff, mark meadows, and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, have also been indicted. Mr trump has denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated. Its the fourth criminal case to be brought against him since he left office. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said a short time ago. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia was Mike Whittall process for election challenges, 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 are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday the 25th day of august, 2023. Earlier, Donald Trumps campaign issued a statement. Lets speak now to sean dilley, our North America correspondent, live from washington, dc
That. i have to ask, politically, none of this seems that you donald trump much harm. with every indictment he seems to get more popular with his base. 50 seems to get more popular with his base. ., ., , his base. so far that is interesting. his base. so far that is interesting. i- his base. so far that is interesting. i try - his base. so far that is interesting. i try to - his base. so far that is - interesting. i try to explain this a lot. it s in the republican party that there are being a couple of pulse just people wavering about some of the legal troubles but there are two elements. the republican party because donald trump is by far the frontrunner to when his party s nomination to when his party s nomination to run for president, that s the important one, he does not need to worry about the president reflection until he wins. his closest rival ron desantis is many double digits behind him, more than 30 points, so he is looking to use the metaphor donald trump himself used,
Libertarian, remember. trump at times had some quite protectionist policies and there is also this question in there is also this question in the case of javier there is also this question in the case ofjavier milei, the case of javier milei, because the case ofjavier milei, because trump was the republican party s candidate republican pa rty s candidate whereas republican party s candidate whereas this guy, he surged to prominence very quickly but it s not very clear and he would govern because his coalition, it has very little presence in the congress. he has been losing governorship elections in argentina s provinces and so it s quite likely he would have to make a number of compromises and alliances if you were to be elected which, remember, is not guaranteed. could you talk is through the election process. not guaranteed but how likely given his popularity, what happens from here? argentina
Georgia have charged donald trump and others with. on the face of it to be quite a bit of overlap in a separate federal case being prosecuted in washington, dc. where donald trump is already being charged with attempting to cheat the election, but this one has got slightly different nuances minute. it does focus on 2 january 2021, to the georgian top lawmaker with donald trump that he wanted him to find 11,780 votes. he sensed and recently yesterday described that as a perfect telephone call, clearly fani willis, the broker in the case, disagrees donald trump again repeating what he said another prosecution is that they ve had 2.5 years to investigate this and he is questioning the timing given the proximity to the election. in timing given the proximity to the election. the election. in terms of timescale, the election. in terms of timescale, tell- the election. in terms of timescale, tell us - the election. in terms of timescale, tell us what i the election. in terms of- timescale