File photo: Mark Meadows currently works at the Conservative Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, and describes his role as “strategic work on Capitol Hill, with other partner organizations, and with grassroots activists across the country.” He explains that it is about leading.
Kate Brumbach Associated Press
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up against those who tried to help him stay in the White House in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
At least five states won by President Joe Biden in 2020 have investigated efforts to set up electoral rolls that would cast Electoral College votes for Trump despite his loss. These tablets will be used by Trump supporters in the House and Senate to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021. However, Congress was disrupted by the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
Several of those charged or accused of engaging in election interference across the state are still involved in Republican politics, including the attorney who oversees “election integrity” at the Republican National Committee. And President Trump, who faces federal charges in Washington and state charges in Georgia for trying to overturn Biden’s victory, continues to frequently claim that the 2020 election was stolen, which many supporters are repeating false claims.
Here’s a look at the plethora of allegations, criminal charges, and references to people close to President Trump as unindicted co-conspirators.
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The former president faces state charges in Georgia and federal charges in Washington over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, and has been identified by investigators in Arizona and Michigan as an unindicted co-conspirator. ing.
The charges in Georgia are a major extortion indictment in Fulton County in August that accused Trump of a far-reaching scheme involving Republican electoral activity to illegally overturn his narrow defeat in the state. He and 18 others were accused of participating.
Trump is the only person indicted in the federal indictment in Washington, but several aides have been identified as co-conspirators in the unsuccessful indictment.
Mr. Trump has denied wrongdoing, and the U.S. Supreme Court is considering his argument that he should be barred from prosecution. He secured the Republican presidential nomination for the third consecutive year.
Rudy Giuliani
Charges the former New York City mayor and pro-Trump lawyer faces in Georgia include racketeering and conspiracy. Charges against him have not yet been made public in Arizona.
In Michigan, state investigators say Mr. Giuliani is among several prominent co-conspirators who have not been charged in a case against Republicans who falsely signed electoral certificates saying Mr. Trump won the state. I testified.
He is also a co-conspirator in an unsuccessful federal indictment in Washington, which cited his remarks at a “Stop the Steal” rally before the Capitol riot.
“The continued weaponization of our justice system causes permanent and irreparable harm to our country and is of concern to all Americans,” his spokesman Ted Goodman said in a statement Thursday. We should,” he said.
christina bob
Bob is a lawyer and conservative media personality who was indicted in Arizona. She worked closely with Mr. Giuliani as he tried to persuade Arizona lawmakers to block the certification of the election results. She then raised money for an unreliable audit of election results in Maricopa County, and One America News Network reported on her spectacle.
As Trump’s lawyer, Bob conducts an “intense search” of classified records and returns all documents to the government before FBI investigation reveals dozens of protected documents at Mar-a-Lago signed a letter stating that Residence.
She was recently appointed to oversee “election integrity” efforts at the Republican National Committee.
Asked about Bobb’s role at the RNC, Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chan accused Democrats of “weaponizing the legal system.”
Boris Epshteyn
Epshteyn, a longtime Trump aide, was indicted in Arizona, where a grand jury charged him with aiding and abetting a sham electoral scheme.
He is a lawyer who has been by Trump’s side during the former president’s own court appearances, including Thursday’s court appearance in New York.
Epshteyn was a leading surrogate candidate in the 2016 presidential election and appeared frequently on television. He briefly served as a White House senior advisor before becoming an analyst at Sinclair Broadcast Group.
mark meadows
President Trump’s White House chief of staff is facing a major extortion charge in Georgia, but it is not connected to the Republican caucus. Among other things, he participated in a call between President Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021, during which the then-president announced his narrow loss in the state. He asked election officials to help him “find” the votes needed to overturn the election.
Meadows’ charges in Arizona have not been made public. He was also identified by Michigan investigators as an unindicted co-conspirator.
His lawyer, George Terwilliger, called Wednesday’s Arizona indictment “a blatantly political and politicized charge that will be fought and defeated.”
Meadows currently works at the Conservative Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington, where his role includes leading “strategic efforts on Capitol Hill, with other partner organizations, and with grassroots activists across the country.” It is explained that this is the case.
john eastman
Eastman, a former dean of Southern California’s Chapman University School of Law, wrote a memo in which then-Vice President Mike Pence announced the electoral certification results during a joint session of Congress using the Republican slates of both houses of Congress. Trump argued that overturning the law would allow him to remain in power. Battleground states.
Charges in Georgia include racketeering and conspiracy, but charges in Arizona have not been made public. He is also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal indictment that cites his remarks at the Stop the Steal rally in Washington on January 6, 2021.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges in Georgia, and his attorney Charles Burnham said he is not guilty of the charges in Arizona.
jenna ellis
Ellis was indicted in Georgia after appearing alongside Giuliani at a hearing sponsored by state Republicans at the Georgia State Capitol in December 2020, in which false claims of election fraud were made. She pleaded guilty in October to one felony count of aiding and abetting a false statement or writing after she reached an agreement with prosecutors. She was not charged in connection with her Republican campaign efforts in Georgia.
It was not immediately clear whether she had an attorney in Arizona who could comment on the charges she faces, which have not yet been made public.
michael roman
Roman, a former Trump campaign staffer and former White House aide, was charged with several conspiracy charges related to the Republican Party’s electoral caucus and the filing of electoral certificates in Georgia. He was also charged in Arizona.
Roman has pleaded not guilty to the charges in Georgia. It is not yet clear whether he has retained an attorney in Arizona.
Kenneth Chesebro
Mr. Chesebro, a lawyer, worked with Republicans in several battleground states to coordinate and execute Mr. Trump’s campaign plan. He was charged with racketeering and several conspiracy charges related to that work in Georgia, and reached an agreement with prosecutors in October to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to submit false documents.
Chesebro is an unindicted co-conspirator in President Trump’s federal election indictment, alleging he “assisted in the planning and attempted execution of a scheme to submit a fraudulent presidential slate of electors in order to disrupt the certification process.”
He is also named in a civil lawsuit in Wisconsin, and when he filed documents to settle that case, he denied liability but promised never to participate in a similar effort.
sidney powell
Mr. Powell, a lawyer and unflinching ally of Mr. Trump, was indicted in Georgia on racketeering and conspiracy charges, but had no involvement in the election system. In the Fulton County indictment, she is accused of participating in the unauthorized entry into election equipment at a county election office in rural Georgia. In October, after reaching an agreement with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor charges in which she was accused of conspiring to intentionally obstruct election operations.
She is an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal election interference case that prosecutors allege filed in Georgia accusing her of amplifying false or unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
Jeffrey Clark
Clark is a former Justice Department official who defended Trump’s false claims about election fraud. He was charged in Georgia with racketeering and criminal attempt to commit a false statement or writing after he presented his colleagues with a draft letter urging Georgia officials to convene a special session regarding the election results. Ta.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges in Georgia.
He was also one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the federal election indictment against Trump.
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In addition to Arizona, criminal charges have been filed against Republicans named as electors in Michigan, Georgia and Nevada. Wisconsin Republican lawmakers who signed the electoral certificate have reached a civil lawsuit settlement, admitting their actions were part of an effort to overturn Biden’s victory. No charges have been filed in Pennsylvania or New Mexico, and New Mexico’s attorney general has said there are no avenues to prosecute under state law.
Associated Press writer Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed to this report.