Donald Trump election probe court files criminal charges

A Georgia tribunal investigating erstwhile US President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 predetermination nonaccomplishment has filed transgression charges, though it is unclear if helium has been indicted.

A clerk astatine the Fulton County tribunal said the expansive assemblage had returned 10 indictments - without specifying immoderate of the charges successful the sprawling inquiry.

An indictment against Mr Trump would people the 4th clip helium has been criminally charged this year.

He has pleaded not blameworthy successful each cases.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched an probe successful February 2021 into allegations of predetermination meddling against Mr Trump and his associates.

Reporters stayed astatine the tribunal successful Atlanta until precocious connected Monday nighttime waiting for the clerk to process a stack of transgression charges, arsenic speculation mounted that the erstwhile president himself had been indicted.

Mr Trump, presently the frontrunner successful the Republican Party's contention to prime its adjacent campaigner for the White House, has said the probe by Ms Willis, a Democrat, was politically motivated.

In a statement, the Trump run described the territory lawyer arsenic a "rabid partisan" who had filed "these bogus indictments" to interfere with the 2024 statesmanlike contention and "damage the ascendant Trump campaign".

"This latest co-ordinated onslaught by a biased authoritative successful an overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdiction not lone betrays the spot of the American people, but besides exposes the existent information driving their fabricated accusations," said the statement.

There was disorder earlier connected Monday erstwhile a database of a transgression charges against Mr Trump appeared connected a Fulton County website earlier the expansive assemblage had adjacent voted to instrumentality an indictment.

The filing said Mr Trump had been charged with racketeering, conspiracy to perpetrate fraud and making mendacious statements.

A spokesperson for Ms Willis said the papers was "fictitious" but did not explicate however it ended up connected the court's website.

Mr Trump and his allies seized connected the evident clerical mistake to assertion the process was rigged.

Mr Trump has already been charged by national prosecutors successful Washington DC with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, which helium mislaid to President Joe Biden, a Democrat. That complaint expanse devoted important clip to the Trump team's activities successful Georgia.

Ms Willis' probe focuses specifically connected Georgia, a cardinal battleground authorities for the US presidency that Mr Trump narrowly lost.

In January 2021, Mr Trump was recorded connected a telephone telephone asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes, the fig helium would person required to bushed Mr Biden successful that state.

At slightest 8 "fake electors", who signed a bogus certificate claiming Mr Trump won the predetermination successful that state, person reached immunity deals successful the lawsuit aft agreeing to interviews with Fulton County prosecutors.