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(Reuters) - Donald Trump faced a new raft of felony charges on Tuesday after a Georgia grand jury used a law developed to take down organized crime gangs to charge the former U.S. president with trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The charges, brought on Monday by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charge Trump & 18 associates for a scheme intended to reverse his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The indictment listed 19 defendants & 41 criminal counts in all. All the defendants were charged with racketeering, which is used to target members of organized crime groups & carries a minimum penalty of 5 years in prison.
Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff & lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis & John Eastman were among those charged.
Trump & the other defendants have until noon Friday, Aug. 25, to surrender voluntarily, rather than face arrest. Willis said she intends to try all 19 defendants together within 6 months.
Trump called the indictment a "witch hunt" & accused Willis of trying to sabotage his presidential comeback bid.
He said he would release a report on Monday on "Presidential Election Fraud" that would exonerate him.
Since his defeat in 2020, Trump has repeatedly made false claims that the election was marred by widespread fraud. Those claims have been rejected by dozens of courts, state reviews & members of his own administration.
In a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call, Trump urged Georgia's top election official, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to reverse his narrow loss in the state. Raffensperger declined.
Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol 4 days later in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent lawmakers from certifying Biden's victory.
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