Trump vows to release ‘irrefutable’ report exonerating him in Georgia election-tampering case
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump claimed Tuesday he will share an “irrefutable” report next week proving there was 2020 presidential election fraud after being indicted for allegedly tampering with the race’s results in Georgia.
The former president announced on Truth Social that he will present the “CONCLUSIVE Report” to the media at a press event Monday in Bedminster, NJ, where his Trump National Golf Club just hosted a Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament over the weekend.
“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week,” the current leading 2024 GOP presidential contender wrote.
Trump, 77, was indicted Monday on 13 counts by a Georgia grand jury for allegedly violating the law while trying to remain in power despite losing the election to former Vice President Joe Biden.
The raps against him include violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, conspiracy, false statements, and asking a public official to violate their oath of office.
He is also charged in three other criminal cases — in Manhattan, Miami, and Washington, DC — while facing a total of 91 counts and potential prison sentences adding up to 712 years and 6 months.
Eighteen alleged co-conspirators were indicted along with Trump in the Georgia case, including his lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and the former president’s 2020 Election Day director of operations Michael Roman.
Keeping track of all of Trump’s indictments
Former President Donald Trump is facing 91 charges in four different criminal cases following his time in office.
Here are all of the legal troubles Trump will face as he heads toward the 2024 election.
Mar-a-Lago classified docs
- Trump is the first former president to receive a federal indictment.
- Trump is accused of taking around 11,000 documents, some containing sensitive national security secrets, and hoarding them in a haphazard manner at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate.
- The most serious charge, in this case, carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’
- Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she claimed the two had.
- Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and is trying to have the case moved to federal court. He is set to appear in court on Jan. 4, 2024.
2020 election overturn bid
- Special counsel Jack Smith charged the ex-president with four counts in connection with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
- Prosecutors charged that the 45th president’s incessant claims of election fraud costing him re-election “were false and [Trump] knew they were false.”
- The indictment is the second brought by Smith against the 77-year-old Trump.
- A mob of Trump supporters breached the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, following his speech on the Ellipse.
New York civil cases
- The former president was sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
- James is alleging that Trump and three of his children lied to banks about his assets and net worth by billions.
- She is seeking a $250 million fine and a ban on Trump doing business in New York state.
- In another civil case, Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.
- Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages from Trump.
- Trump was not found guilty of rape after the jury rejected Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room.
“Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!” Trump wrote in his Truth Social posting. “They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
He followed up the Tuesday morning post with another reading simply: “WITCH HUNT!”
All 19 defendants are charged with Georgia’s equivalent of the federal RICO statute, which can be used against any group of individuals deemed to use criminal means to attain an objective.
The acronym refers to the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
“[The] Defendants … [30] unindicted co-conspirators … and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in … false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury,” the 98-page indictment read.
While arraignment dates have not yet been set, prosecutors said at a press conference Monday evening that they gave Trump and his co-defendants until noon Aug. 25 to surrender to the court.
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