In the US state of Arizona, 18 people have been indicted in connection with an attempt to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, the state’s attorney general announced, as cited by France Press and the Associated Press.
According to American media, Rudy Giuliani (pictured), personal lawyer of former President Donald Trump, is also among the defendants.
The indictment says there was a conspiracy to award US Electoral College votes, which are used every four years to elect a new president, in favor of Donald Trump in the state, which he won in 2020 a bit of joe biden. Arizona’s attorney general said the case involved 11 local Republicans, as well as seven others from out of state.
According to the Washington Post, the seven include Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epstein and Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer.
No charges were brought against the former president, but he was listed as an unindicted accomplice.
Joe Biden won this southwestern state by just over 10,000 votes ahead of the billionaire, but many representatives of the Republican Party believed, without evidence, that there had been fraud and that Donald Trump had won the Arizona election, AFP recalled, quoted by BTA.
Arizona has become the fourth US state, after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, to take legal action against people who tried to form an alternative list of Electoral College representatives, which determines the US president.
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