The US state of Arizona has indicted 18 people in connection with an attempt to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. This was announced by the state’s chief prosecutor, quoted by France Press and the Associated Press, BTA reported.
Among the defendants is Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and former mayor of New York.
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The indictment says there was a conspiracy to award US Electoral College votes to Donald Trump in that state, which was narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020. Arizona’s attorney general said the case involved 11 local Republicans, as well as 7 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 have been filed against the former president, but he has been listed as an unindicted accomplice, according to the Washington Post.
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 recalls.
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 who is the new US president.
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