Indictment for the first time were being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Meantime lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the breaking allegations on this matter. What do we know . Hydrates we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now, but they do read that donald trump and some of his associates, including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows, have been listed and charged in this indictment. Theres a long list of various charges, including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer. Were reading through this right now will be able to update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day. There was a lot of anticipation or questions. About who might be named in this indictment. If any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed, we now know that many of them are theres a long list, including some of his former attorneys, including jenna ellis.
law is completely nonpartisan. that s how decisions are made. in every case to date this office has indicted since i ve been sitting as a district attorney over 12,000 cases. this is the 11th rico indictment. we followed the same process. we look at the facts. we look at the law and we bring charges about the terms of surrender. will you try this case yourself, miss willis cleared down down. well, there you have a funny will spoke for about seven minutes, took a few questions. they re one of the questions that she would not ask, was brought up about this indictment that appeared on the fulton county government website today that was also broken and posted by reuters and the county came out and said that was a fictitious documents and to ignore it. and as one of the reporters kind of mentioned there, the document the actual document that came out earlier this evening actually matched that document . i want to bring in the anchor special report. one more time. brett baer brett baer, what
broke the story. and then the clerk s office came out and said, no ignore that. that is a fictitious documents, and that document matched the actual indictment. but the document earlier was actually processed and put out prior to the grand jury voting to indict and that s the key thing here because you talk about fairness and you talk about, you know, talking to people about these issues. everybody in the country has got to be thinking that just doesn t seem right. yeah and there s no doubt about it when you heard that, and we saw that. it really raised a lot of questions when you think that 86% of republicans right now are saying that they believe that these charges against trump or politically motivated and then you see this kind of activity happened. it just reinforces that belief, and it s going to be hard for anybody to hear anything beyond that to say or trust anything they had to say, because they re going to look at this and say it was predetermined. the legal system is rigged,
indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law. the grand jury issued arrest warrants for those who are charged. i am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon. on friday, the 25th day of august 2023. remind everyone here that an indictment is only a series of allegations based on a grand jury s determination of probable calls to support the charges. it is now the duty of my office to prove these charges in the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. i would like to take a moment to thank thank the superior court clerk shea alexander and her staff for staying late and making sure that this indictment was process. i would also like to thank the men and women of sheriff labatt s office for keeping the courthouse open,
actually knew that the grand jury was had voted to indict. and so the question becomes. we re not getting we re not getting the honest story from somebody. yeah and you know she s calls it a clerical error. she doesn t know how the system works. of course, he knows how the system works. it s a system that she deals with all the time about how a grand jury delivers these documents, how it goes to the office, how it s recorded and processed and then it s unsealed and she talks about it. she knows exactly how it works. so this is a question that s going to continue to come up about how that happened during the day. but the bottom line is the bottom line. the former president, united states , the 45th, president of the united states, now has been charged four times. four indictments. with now about 90 plus individual charges against the former president. and there you see the charges in this particular case that stems around the 2020 election and