The Craziest Details From the Trump Georgia Indictment

Trump drafted his Election Night speech claiming he was the victim of voter fraud well before the majority of Americans cast their votes:

On or about the 4th day of November 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP made a nationally televised speech falsely declaring victory in the 2020 presidential election. Approximately four days earlier, on or about October 31, 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP discussed a draft speech with unindicted coconspirator Individual l, whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, that falsely declared victory and falsely claimed voter fraud. The speech was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

The effort to block the certification of Biden’s win looked haphazard from the outside, but the indictment says Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows requested a written memo plotting their strategy for disrupting the certification of Biden’s win:

On or between the 1st day of December 2020 and the 31st day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP and MARK RANDALL MEADOWS met with John McEntee and requested that McEntee prepare a memorandum outlining a strategy for disrupting and delaying the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, the day prescribed by law for counting votes cast by the duly elected and qualified presidential electors from Georgia and the other states. The strategy included having Vice President Michael R. “Mike” Pence count only half of the electoral votes from certain states and then return the remaining electoral votes to state legislatures. The request was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

We knew Meadows traveled to Cobb County to observe an audit of votes in late December 2020, but the indictment says he also tried to enter the room, and later texted the official leading the audit, “Is there a way to speed up Fulton county signature verification in order to have results before Jan. 6 if the Trump campaign assist financially.”

On or about the 22nd day of December 2020, MARK RANDALL MEADOWS traveled to the Cobb County Civic Center in Cobb County, Georgia, and attempted to observe the signature match audit being performed there by law enforcement officers from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Ofiice of the Georgia Secretary of State, despite the fact that the audit process was not open to the public. While present at the center, MARK RANDALL MEADOWS spoke to Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, Office of the Georgia Secretary of State Chief Investigator Frances Watson, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Bahan Rich, and others, who prevented MARK RANDALL MEADOWS from entering into the space where the audit was being conducted. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

The indictment cites the former mob-busting U.S. Attorney’s lies to members of the Georgia Senate as evidence of “racketeering activity”:

On or about the 3rd day of December 2020, RUDOLPH WILLIAM LOUIS GIULIANI committed the felony offense of FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-10-20, in-Fulton County, Georgia, by knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully making at least one of the following false statements and representations to members of the Georgia Senate present at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee meeting:

(1) That at least 96,600 mail in ballots were counted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia, despite there being no record of those ballots having been returned to a county elections office;

(2) That Dominion Voting Systems equipment used in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Antrim County, Michigan, mistakenly recorded 6,000 votes for Joseph R. Biden when the votes were actually cast for Donald John Trump;

said statements being within the jurisdiction of the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, departments and agencies of state government, and county and city law enforcement agencies. This was an act of racketeering activity under O.C.G.A. § 16- 14-3 (5)(A)(xxii) and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

Giuliani is accused of spewing even more election lies when speaking to members of the Georgia House of Representatives:

On or about the 10th day of December 2020, RUDOLPH WILLIAM LOUIS GIULIANI committed the felony offense of FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-10-20, in Fulton County, Georgia, by knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully making at least one of the following false statements and representations to members of the Georgia House 0f Representatives present at a House Governmental Affairs Committee

meeting:

(1) That it is quite clear from the State Farm Arena Video from November 3, 2020, that Fulton County election workers were stealing votes and that Georgia officials were covering up a crime in plain sight;

(2) That at State Farm Arena on November 3, 2020, Democratic officials “got rid of all of the reporters, all the observers, anyone that couldn’t be trusted,” used the excuse of a watermain break, cleared out the voting area and then “went about their dirty, crooked

business”;

(3) That between 12,000 and 24,000 ballots were illegally counted by Fulton County election workers at State Farm Arena on November 3, 2020;

(4) That in Michigan, there were 700,000 more ballots counted than were sent out to voters in the November 3, 2020, presidential election, which was accounted for by quadruple counting ballots;

(5) That Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, and an unidentified man were “quite obviously surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they’re vials of heroin or cocaine” at State Farm Arena to be used to “infiltrate the crooked Dominion voting machines”;

(6) That 96,600 mail-in ballots were counted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia, despite there being no record of those ballots having been returned to a county elections office;

said statements being Within the jurisdiction of the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, departments and agencies of state government, and county and city law enforcement agencies. This was an act of racketeering activity under O.C.G.A. § 16- 14-3 (5)(A)(xxii) and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

The indictment accuses Trump adviser Sidney Powell and several other defendants of conspiring to “unlwafully access secure voting equiptment and voter data” in Fulton County and elsewhere.

In Georgia, members of the enterprise stole data, including ballot images, voting equipment software, and personal voter information. The stolen data was then distributed to other members of the enterprise, including members in other states. 

We may all be numb to Trump lying on social media, but the document lists his various false tweets as part of his plot:

On or about the 3rd day 0f December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP caused to be tweeted from the Twitter account @RealDonaldTrump, “Wow! Blockbuster testimony taking place right now in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to leave the large counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone leads to an easy win of the State!” This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

The indictment accuses Trump and Eastman of filing a complaint that included various voter fraud allegations in a Georgia election lawsuit, though earlier that day Eastman sent an email to Trump attorneys “admitting his knowledge that at least some of the allegations in the verified complaint were not accurate.”

On or about the 31st day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUNIP and JOHN CHARLES EASTMAN committed the felony offense of FILING FALSE DOCUMENTS, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-10-20.1(b)(1), in Fulton County, Georgia, by knowingly filing a document titled “VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR EMERGENCY INJUNCTIVE AND DECLARATORY RELIEF” in the matter of Trump V. Kemp, Case 1:20—cv—05310-MHC, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, a court of the United States having reason to know that said document contained at least one of the following materially false statements:

l. That “as many as 2,506 felons with an uncompleted sentence” voted illegally in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

2. That “at least 66,247 underage” people voted illegally in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

3. That “at least 2,423 individuals” voted illegally in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia “who were not listed in the State’s records as having been registered

to vote”;

4. That “at least 1,043 individuals” voted illegally in the November 3, 2020, presidential election “who had illegally registered to vote using a postal office box as their habitation”;

5. That “as many as 10,315 or more” dead people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

6. That “[d]eliberate misinformation was used to instruct Republican poll watchers and members of the press to leave the premises for the night at approximately 10:00 p.m. on November 3, 2020” at State Farm Arena in Fulton County, Georgia;

It appears she did not take the bait, as the RNC chair is not among the defendants:

On or about the 8th day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP and JOHN CHARLES EASTMAN placed a telephone call to Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to request her assistance gathering certain individuals to meet and cast electoral votes for DONALD JOHN TRUMP on December 14, 2020, in certain states despite the fact that DONALD JOHN TRUMP lost the November 3, 2020, presidential election in those states. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

The indictment alleges that Trevian Kutti, Harrison Floyd, and Stephen Cliffgard Lee coordinated to intimidate Freeman, who had been falsely accused by the Trump campaign of counting fake mail-in ballots. Kutti is a publicist who claims she has worked with Kanye West and is a member of “the Young Black Leadership Council under President Donald Trump.” Floyd was executive director of Black Voices for Trump. Lee is an Illinois-based former police officer, according to Reuters.

The indictment says that in December 2020, Lee showed up to Freeman’s home and spoke with her neighbor in an effort to influence her to falsely confess to engaging in election fraud. When that didn’t work Lee solicited help from Floyd, then Kutti traveled to Georgia and met with Freeman, claiming she was she was a crisis manager who wanted to “help” the election worker, as she was in unspecified “danger”:

On or about the 4th day of January 2021, TREVIAN C. KUTTI traveled to a Cobb County Police Department precinct in Cobb County, Georgia, and met with and spoke to Ruby Freeman for approximately one hour. HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD joined the meeting by telephone. TREVIAN C. KUTTI and HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD stated to Freeman that she needed protection and purported to offer her help. This was an overt act in fithherance of the conspiracy. 

Apparently you can’t just type up a document claiming you’re the real certified Georgia electors:

On or about the 14th day of December 2020, DAVID JAMES SHAFER, SHAWN MICAH TRESHER STILL, CATHLEEN ALSTON LATHAM, and unindicted co-conspirators Individual 2, Individual 8, Individual 9, Individual 10, Individual ll, Individual 12, Individual l3, Individual l4, Individual 15, Individual 16, Individual l7, Individual l8, and Individual 19, whose identities are known to the Grand Jury, committed the felony offense of FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-9-1(b), in Fulton County, Georgia, by, with the intent to defraud, knowingly making a document titled “CERTIFICATE OF THE VOTES OF THE 2020 ELECTORS FROM GEORGIA,” a writing other than a check, in such manner that the writing as made purports to have been made by authority of the duly elected and qualified presidential electors from the State of Georgia, who did not give such authority, and uttered and delivered said document to the Archivist of the United States. This was an act of racketeering activity under O.C.G.A. § 16 14-3(5)(A)(xvi) and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

One of the few direct quotes from Trump in the Georgia document is request to the two top Justice Department officials to back up his bogus fraud claims. We’ve heard this story before, but now it’s in yet another indictment:

On or about the 27th day of December 2020, DONALD JOHN TRUMP solicited Acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Acting United States Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue to make a false statement by stating, “Just say that the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. 

The indictment also includes Jeffrey Clark’s alleged attempt to get Rosen and Donoghue to sign a false document claiming the DOJ had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.”

While Trump has repeatedly insisted that the appalling phone January 2, 2021 call in which he asked Georgia secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” was flawless, the indictment lists 13 ways it constituted racketeering:

On or about the 2nd day of January 2021, DONALD JOHN TRUMP committed the felony offense of FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-10-20, in Fulton County, Georgia, by knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully making at least one of the following false statements and representations to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, and Georgia Secretary of State General Counsel Ryan Germany:

(l ) That anywhere from 250,000 to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

(2) That thousands of people attempted to vote in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia and were told they could not because a ballot had already been cast in their name;

(3) That 4,502 people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia who were not on the voter registration list;

(4) That 904 people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia who were registered at an address that was a post office box;

(5) That Ruby Freeman was a. professional vote scammer and a known political operative;

(6) That Ruby Freeman, her daughter, and others were responsible for fraudulently awarding at least 18,000 ballots to Joseph R. Biden at State Farm Arena in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

(7) That close to 5,000 dead people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

(8) That 139% of people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Detroit;

(9) That 200,000 more votes were recorded than the number of people who voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Pennsylvania;

(10) That thousands of dead people voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Michigan;

( l l) That Ruby Freeman stuffed the ballot boxes;

(12) That hundreds of thousands of ballots had been “dumped” into Fulton County and another county adjacent to Fulton County in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia;

(13) That he won the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia by 400,000 votes;

said statements being within the jurisdiction of the Ofiice of the Georgia Secretary of State and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, departments and agencies of state government. This was an act of racketeering activity under O.C.G.A. § 16-14-3 (5)(A)(xxii) and an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

During an Oval Office meeting on January 4, 2021, Trump and Eastman argued to Vice President Mike Pence that he should either delay the January 6 joint session of Congress or reject electoral votes from certain states. The indictment alleges:

During the meeting, JOHN CHARLES EASTMAN admitted both options violated the Electoral Count Act. This was an overt act in furtherance ofthe conspiracy. 

As we’ve learned from previous reporting, Eastman subscribes to the eccentric view that the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional, as the 12th Amendment says the VP can do whatever he wants when certifying elections. But that’s not a call for the president’s adviser to make unilaterally. After the proceedings on January 6 were delayed due to the Capitol riot, Eastman sent an email to Pence’s counsel arguing that the Electoral Count Act had already been violated, so they might as well keep going:

On or about the 6th day of January 2021, JOHN CHARLES EASTMAN sent an e- mail to Counsel to the Vice President Greg Jacob that stated:

“The Senate and House have both violated the Electoral Count Act this evening they debated the Arizona objections for more than 2 hours. Violation of 3 USC 17. And the VP allowed further debate or statements by leadership after the question had been voted upon. Violation of 3 USC 17. And they had that debate upon motion approved by the VP, in violation of the requirement in 3 USC 15 that after the vote in the separate houses, ‘they shall immediately again meet.’

So now that the precedent has been set that the Electoral Count Act is not quite so sacrosanct as was previously claimed, I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation and adjourn for 10 days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here. If none of that moves the needle, at least a good portion of the 75 million people who supported President Trump will have seen a process that allowed the illegality to be aired.”

This post has been updated throughout.