Arizona authorities have officially accused Donald Trump’s adviser and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and 16 other people of conspiring to overturn the results of the last presidential election in this state.
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Trump himself is among the accomplices in the case, but is not included among the accused, writes the BBC.
Arizona has become the fourth state where Trump and his allies are facing criminal charges in connection with attempts to overturn the results of an election that Trump has persistently called rigged without evidence.
The formal filing of charges was announced by Arizona Democratic Attorney General Chris Mace on Wednesday after a state grand jury agreed to the ongoing charges after a year-long investigation.
I will not allow American democracy to be undermined – it is too important to us. This gerrymander, if successful, would deprive Arizona voters of the right to have their votes counted for their elected president. This, in essence, would make their right to choose meaningless,” the prosecutor general said in a video broadcast.
Joe Biden won Arizona by just 10,457 votes.
The official indictment names only 11 of the 18 defendants in the case, but the remaining seven, including Mark Meadows and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, are described in enough detail to understand who they are talking about.
Arizona prosecutors promise to release the names of the seven once they are all personally and formally charged.
In the documents filed in court, the “former President of the United States,” who can hardly be anyone other than Trump, also appears as a co-conspirator, but not an accused.
Among the defendants named are former Arizona Republican Party chairman Kelli Ward, her husband Michael Ward and two state congressmen, Anthony Kern and Jake Hoffman.
Hoffman said on CBS that he does not consider himself guilty and views the charges as outright political persecution.
In addition to Arizona, Republican Party figures have been formally accused of complicity in Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results in three US states: Nevada, Michigan and Georgia.
A Democratic-led congressional committee investigating the Trump storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and Trump’s likely attempts to overturn the election results concluded that the ex-president and members of his team after the November 2010 elections of majorities in the congresses of seven states where Republican electors won or not appoint voters at all.
Arizona Republicans listened and sent fraudulent certificates to the US Senate.
Source: Racurs
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