Former President Trump filed a motion in support of quashing the Georgia indictment that charged him and 18 others for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
Trump attorney Steven Sadow filed two motions Tuesday that adopted motions from co-defendants Rudy Giuliani, a former Trump attorney, and Ray Stallings Smith III to toss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ indictment.
TRUMP SAYS TAKING MUGSHOT WAS ‘NOT A COMFORTABLE FEELING, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG’
Trump was charged with one count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal conspiracy, one count of filing false documents and two counts of making false statements.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Trump and more than a dozen others were charged out of the Fulton County probe, including Giuliani, Smith, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his former attorneys Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, among others.
“It is election interference,” Trump told Fox News Digital last month. “We did nothing wrong at all. And we have every right, every single right, to challenge an election that we think is dishonest that we think is very dishonest.”
The indictment out of Georgia was the fourth for Trump, who is the first former president in United States history to face criminal charges.
Trump was first charged in March out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s years-long investigation related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
TRUMP BOND SET AT $200,000 AFTER GEORGIA INDICTMENT; HE WILL BE PROCESSED THURSDAY
Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in New York.
Those charges from Bragg came amid Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s alleged improper retention of classified records from his presidency at…
Read the full article here
