The US state of Arizona has charged eighteen people in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, the Attorney General of Arizona said on Wednesday (April 24). the state. The accusations point to a conspiracy aimed at assigning electoral votes – a certain number of which allow the election of a new president every four years – to Donald Trump in this state narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020.
The attorney general of Arizona, a key state for the November election, said that eleven local Republicans were affected by the indictments, as well as seven other people outside the state.
According to the Washington Post, among these seven people are Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, as well as Rudy Giuliani, former personal lawyer by Donald Trump. The former president was not charged but was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, according to the Washington Post.
Arizona, fourth state to initiate proceedings
Joe Biden won this southwestern state with a little more than 10,000 votes ahead of the billionaire but many Republican Party officials considered, without proof, that there had been fraud and that Donald Trump had won. Arizona. Despite the defeat of the Republican candidate in this state with desert landscapes, his representatives nevertheless signed documents attesting to his victory.
After Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, Arizona is the fourth state to file charges against people who tried to form an alternative list of electors. Mr. Meadows, Mr. Giuliani, Ms. Ellis and Mr. Eastman have all been indicted in Georgia, alongside Donald Trump in what is likely the most explosive of the four criminal trials he faces.
These new indictments come as Donald Trump is once again a candidate for the White House against President Joe Biden and continues to baselessly assert that he won in 2020.