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
Tells us is that there are far more people who support him and who voted for him. as we said, 30% of people in the primary s voted for him. there was a province where he got very nearly 50%, 46.7% in the province of san luis so a lot of people, whether explicitly or not, they are probably quite happy about it. it or not, they are probably quite happy about it happy about it. it feels some similarities, happy about it. it feels some similarities, former - happy about it. it feels some similarities, former tv - similarities, former tv personality, that i ran through there. busy styling himself as a kind donald trump? is styling himself as an outsider, as someone who doesn t want to have to deal with this politics nonsense and is going to come in and sort it all out so in that sense, i think you can draw a comparison with donald trump but at the same time, this is a guy who is