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Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> was indicted<\/a> Monday by a Fulton County grand jury for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Today\u2019s indictment marks the fifth time the ex-president has been criminally charged since March, when a Manhattan grand jury voted<\/a> to indict him over various hush-money payments he made prior to the 2016 election. In June, he was indicted<\/a> by a federal grand jury for willfully retaining national defense information and conspiring to obstruct justice, and weeks later, he was indicted by a separate federal grand jury<\/a> for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In late July, he was hit with additional charges<\/a> in the documents case, in a superseding indictment. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n In Georgia, Trump was charged<\/a> with 13 counts, including violating the state\u2019s racketeering act, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree, conspiring to file false documents, and soliciting a public officer to violate their oath.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a statement, the Trump campaign accused<\/a> Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis of being a \u201crabid partisan\u201d and baselessly claimed that her investigation was based on \u201cfabricated accusations.\u201d The campaign also insisted the Biden administration was connected to the proceedings, despite the fact that this is not a federal case.\u00a0<\/p>\n Willis first announced<\/a> her investigation into Trump on February 10, 2021, just over a month after his infamous phone call<\/a> with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger,<\/strong> during which the then president demanded the state official \u201cfind\u201d him the exact number of votes he needed to beat Joe Biden<\/strong> there. \u201cAll I want to do is this,\u201d Trump told Raffensperger. \u201cI just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.\u201d Trump had also claimed that not coming up with said votes would be a \u201ccriminal offense,\u201c warning Raffensperger and the secretary of state\u2019s general counsel, \u201cYou can\u2019t let that happen. That\u2019s a big risk to you.\u201d (Raffensperger subsequently wrote in his book<\/a> that he believed Trump was threatening him.) Trump also placed<\/a> at least two additional phone calls to Georgia officials in his quest to overturn the election, one to David Ralston,<\/strong> who at the time was Georgia\u2019s House Speaker, and one to Frances Watson,<\/strong> an investigator in Raffensperger\u2019s office. (Trump wanted the former to convene a special legislative session to overturn Biden\u2019s win in Georgia, and pressed the latter to expose \u201cdishonesty\u201d as she looked into absentee mail ballots.)<\/p>\n Willis\u2019s investigation ultimately expanded to include the post-election activities of Trump and his allies in other states<\/a>, and a scheme by a slate of \u201cfake electors\u201d to keep Trump in office.<\/p>\n Last year, a special grand jury was impaneled to investigate the case. It submitted a report in January that Trump\u2019s attorneys attempted to\u00a0quash<\/a>\u00a0(they also tried to get both Willis and the judge presiding over the inquiry\u00a0thrown off the case<\/a>). In February, when asked about the recommendations the special grand jury made regarding which individuals should be charged, jury forewoman\u00a0Emily Kohrs<\/strong>\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0The New York\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0it was \u201cnot a short list.\u201d Asked whether the ex-president was on it, she added: \u201cYou\u2019re not going to be shocked. It\u2019s not rocket science.\u201d Speaking to\u00a0The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>\u00a0in March, another juror\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0of the group\u2019s report: \u201cA lot\u2019s gonna come out sooner or later. And it\u2019s gonna be massive. It\u2019s gonna be massive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n