Some 18 other individuals were indicted along with former President Donald Trump Monday night by a Georgia grand jury.
Three of the individuals previously held high-profile positions in the former president’s orbit, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, and Trump advisor Sidney Powell. All three were charged with election interference.
The grand jury impaneled by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also indicted 15 other lesser-known people.
According to The Wall Street Journal, they include (in alphabetical order):
- Robert Cheeley, a Georgia personal injury attorney who appeared at state legislative hearings and made allegations about election workers double-counting votes.
- Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer and Trump campaign strategist.
- Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official during the Trump administration.
- John Eastman, a lawyer and Trump advisor who argued the former president had won Georgia in the last presidential election.
- Jenna Ellis, a member of Trump’s legal team.
- Harrison William Prescott Floyd, a mixed-martial-arts fighter who previously led the group Black Voices for Trump.”
- Scott Hall, an Atlanta bail bondsman allegedly involved in a voting systems breach in Coffee County, Georgia.
- Misty Hampton, a Coffee County elections supervisor.
- Trevian Kutti, a former publicist for Ye, the rap artist formerly known as Kanye West.
- Cathy Latham, the former head of the Republican Party in Coffee County.
- Stephen C. Lee, a Lutheran police chaplain from Illinois.
- Michael Roman, a Trump campaign staff member.
- David Shafer, a former Georgia senator and former chair of the Georgia Republican Party.
- Ray S. Smith III, a lawyer who filed a lawsuit challenging the presidential election results in Georgia.
- Shawn Still, a sitting Georgia senator.
Giuliani called the indictments “an affront to American democracy.”
“It’s just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and anyone willing to take on the ruling regime,” the former mayor said in a statement, per ABC News.
“They lied about Russian collusion, they lied about Joe Biden’s foreign bribery scheme, and they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive proving 30 years of criminal activity. The real criminals here are the people who have brought this case forward both directly and indirectly,” Giuliani claimed.
Clark’s spokesperson said the Fulton County district attorney was “exceeding her powers by inserting herself into the operations of the federal government to go after Jeff,” The New York Times reported.
Kutti said the charges against her were “baloney,” according to the WSJ.
Trump said on Tuesday that he would release a Georgia elections report next week that would exonerate him, the Washington Examiner reported.
“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 in Bedminster, New Jersey,” Trump said in a Tuesday morning post on Truth Social.
“Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!” Trump added.
Other politicians weighed in on the Trump indictment on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted that Joe Biden “has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election.” He accused Willis of “attacking President Trump and using it to fundraise her political career.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, told MSNBC that the indictment “is a terrible moment for our country.”
“The only satisfaction may be that the system is working, that all of the efforts by Donald Trump, his allies, and his enablers to try to silence the truth, to try to undermine democracy, have been brought into the light, and justice is being pursued,” Clinton said.
Texas leaders also weighed in:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted, “Joe Biden & Democrats are weaponizing the justice system because they fear the voters.”
Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) tweeted, “Donald Trump interfered with a free and fair election. … Meanwhile, instead of denouncing Trump, Ted Cruz is focused on weaponizing the government to protect him. Cruz is a coward.”
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) tweeted, “The left, by attacking President Trump, is sending yet another message to anyone who fought for free and fair elections: you’re next.”
