The former president was not charged but was named as an unindicted conspirator, according to the Washington Post.
The US state of Arizona has charged 18 people in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, the state’s attorney general said on Wednesday (April 24). The charges allege a plot to award electoral votes* to Donald Trump in this state narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020. The former president was not charged but was named as an unindicted conspirator, according to THE Washington Post.
The attorney general of Arizona, a key state in the November election, said 11 local Republicans were included in the indictments, as well as seven others from outside the state. According to Washington Postamong these seven people are Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, lawyers Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, as well as Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer .
The fourth state to file charges
Joe Biden won this southwestern state with a little more than 10,000 votes ahead of the billionaire but many Republican Party officials considered, without proof, that there had been fraud and that Donald Trump had won. ‘Arizona. Despite Trump’s defeat in this desert state, his representatives nevertheless signed documents attesting to his victory. After Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, Arizona is the fourth state to file charges against people who tried to form an alternative list of electors.
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and John Eastman had all previously been indicted in Georgia, alongside Donald Trump in what is likely the most explosive of the four criminal trials he faces. These new indictments come as Donald Trump is once again a candidate for the White House against President Joe Biden and he continues to baselessly assert that he won in 2020.
*Since the presidential election is indirect in the United States, voters vote for electors, who designate the president.
