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
Look into that. from the prosecution perspective, getting this out of the way quickly would have advantages. he is facing trials in other cases in march in new york over allegations that he uses businesses to hide payments to a porn star. in may he is going on trial in florida over the classified documents retention case on espionage and obstruction charges. no date has been set for the federal case that s being posited in washington, dc on special prosecutorjack smith. but that s the case that s got the closest relation to this case in georgia. one point some people are making and again i feel they re getting slightly feel they re getting slightly ahead feel they re getting slightly ahead of themselves to a great point because we don t know what the results will be, everybody is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law but on federal convictions if hypothetically they happened it would be the power up an elected president to pardon themselves whereas with state cases t