Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went viral following an exchange he had with a self-described ‘pansexual’ activist who confronted him on LGBTQ issues.

Video of the exchange, which took place on Saturday at the Iowa State Fair, began with the activist asking what his ‘opinions on the LGBTQ+ community.’

‘Well, I don’t think it’s one community,’ Ramswamy responded. 

‘Really?’ the activist reacted.

‘Yeah. I mean, how could it be,’ Ramaswamy continued. ‘Just mash together an alphabet soup. Trans is fundamentally in tension with gay if you ask me. But what’s your opinion?’

‘I’m personally am pansexual,’ the activist responded, referring to the sexual orientation that has attraction towards all sexes and gender identities. 

The activist then asked what his views were on same-sex couples. 

‘I don’t have a negative view of same-sex couples, but I do have a negative view of a tyranny of the minority,’ Ramaswamy said. ‘So I think that in the name of protecting against the tyranny of the majority, and there are times in this country’s history where we have had a tyranny of the majority. We have now in the name of protecting against tyranny of the majority created a new tyranny of the minority. 

‘And I think that that’s wrong. I don’t think that somebody who’s religious should be forced to officiate a wedding that they disagree with. I don’t think somebody who is a woman who’s worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological man in a swim competition. I don’t think that somebody who’s a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. That’s not freedom. That’s oppression.’ 

‘And so I believe that we live in a country where free adults should be free to dress how they want, behave how they want and that’s fine, but you don’t oppress you don’t become oppressive by foisting that on others, and that especially includes kids because kids aren’t the same as adults. And so I think adults are free to make whatever choices they want, but do not foist that ideology onto children before children are in a position as adults to make decisions for themselves. 

‘And so I think a lot of the frustration in the country, and if I’m being really honest that I also share, comes from that new culture of oppression where saying those things can actually get somebody punished. And in my case, it’s part of why it’s my responsibility to say them, and I respect that you have a different opinion. And that’s okay. Part of what makes our country great is that you and I can be civil and have this conversation and that we live in a country that still gives us — each of us the right to speak to a presidential candidate and back and still say that we pledge allegiance to the same nation. So I think that’s the beauty of our country. And that’s my honest opinion.’

The activist finished the exchange by thanking Ramaswamy, who in turn thanked her ‘for her civility as well.’

The social media post with of their interaction received nearly 12 million views. 

This isn’t the first time Ramaswamy went viral for embracing voters who might not have his support. At an Iowa campaign event in July, he was confronted by a liberal protester who interrupted his remarks by advocating for abortion rights. But as other attendees attempted to shout her down, Ramaswamy urged them to ‘let her speak’ and encouraged her to come towards the front of the room to express her thoughts.

Ramaswamy has risen in GOP primary polls according to RealClearPolitics, placing third behind former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with 6.4% percent support. 

He is one of eight candidates who qualify for the first Republican debate on Aug. 23 that will air on Fox News Channel at 9 p.m. ET. 

President Biden tripped over his words Tuesday during a visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he touted ‘Bidenomics’ and his administration’s economic agenda.

During the speech, Biden focuses on jobs in manufacturing as he spoke at a Wisconsin factory.

Nearly 20 minutes into his speech, the president spoke about jobs being created in America instead of getting exported out.

‘And they’re being built right here in Wisconsin and in places where factories have been shut down,’ he said.

Biden then boasted that since taking office, the private sector had announced $3 billion in investments for wind energy manufacturing in the U.S., which he claimed was cheaper than fossil fuels.

‘And that’s not all. So, this year, this company didn’t think it made sense to make chargers for electric vehicles in the United States,’ Biden said. ‘But then when I signed the [unintelligible word], again, which [Republican Senator] Ron Johnson and his friends didn’t vote for, they all voted against, that law invests $7.5 billion to build a network of thousands of electric vehicle chargers stretching across the country, including on I-94.’

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which could be what Biden was trying to say when he muttered something that sounded like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, was signed in November 2021.

At the time, Biden called the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill a ‘once-in-a-generation investment in our people.’

He said it would create millions of jobs, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put the U.S. on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st century.

Biden also said the act would create good-paying jobs that cannot be outsourced, and jobs that will transform the transportation system with significant investments.

President Biden raised eyebrows on social media Tuesday after he told a crowd in Wisconsin that he watched a bridge collapse in Pittsburg last year.

Biden was touting his economic policies during a stop at Ingeteam, a wind turbine generator manufacturer in Milwaukee, when he brought up the 2022 collapse.

‘A lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh,’ he said. ‘By the way, Pittsburgh is a city of bridges – more bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America.’

‘I watched that bridge collapse,’ he said. ‘I got there and saw it collapse with over 200 feet off the ground going over a valley. It collapsed. Thank God school was out during the pandemic.’

The Republican National Committee posted a clip of Biden’s remarks on X, formerly Twitter, adding, ‘That didn’t happen.’

On Jan. 28, 2022, hours before Biden’s arrival in Pittsburgh for a pre-planned speech, the 477-foot Forbes Avenue Bridge collapsed, injuring multiple people. Biden reportedly gave his speech four miles from the bridge, and he later visited the site of the damage, but he did not witness the collapse firsthand.

BIDEN REPEATS DEBUNKED AMTRAK STORY FOR 5TH TIME DURING PRESIDENCY 

The president has a long history of exaggerating stories about himself. In November 2021, he said he ‘had a house burn down with my wife in it.’ A month earlier, he recounted for the fifth time during his presidency a debunked story about an Amtrak employee during a speech in New Jersey. The employee Biden frequently mentioned actually died a year before the story was said to have taken place.

In 2020, Biden had to walk back repeated claims that he was arrested in apartheid-era South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela.

In 2019, Biden told a crowd of college students a harrowing story about a Navy captain in Afghanistan that was later debunked by the Washington Post.

In 2013, Biden said he heard the gunshots of an Amish schoolhouse shooting that killed five students while playing golf nearby in Pennsylvania in 2006. The Washington Times poured cold water on the claim at the time, reporting that no golf course in the area had any record of hosting Biden.

In 2008, Biden said his helicopter in Afghanistan was ‘forced down’ by al Qaeda insurgents on ‘the superhighway of terror.’ The Associated Press later reported that a snowstorm, not the enemy, forced the pilot to land.

In 2007, Biden said he had been ‘shot at’ during a trip years earlier to Iraq. He later clarified that he was ‘near where a shot landed.’

Biden’s tall-tale telling came to light during his first presidential campaign in 1988, from which he eventually withdrew under the weight of multiple plagiarism allegations. During that campaign, he also falsely claimed that he attended law school on a full scholarship and graduated in the top half of his class, which he later admitted was untrue. He also said at the time that he ‘marched with tens of thousands’ of people during the civil rights movement, but that also turned out to be false.

The two top Democrats in Congress released a joint statement Monday night slamming former President Donald Trump in response to news he was indicted for the fourth time in Georgia. 

‘The fourth indictment of Donald Trump, just like the three which came before it, portrays a repeated pattern of criminal activity by the former president,’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.

‘This latest indictment details how Mr. Trump led a months-long plot pushing the Big Lie to steal an election, undermine our democracy, and overturn the will of the people of Georgia.

‘The actions taken by the Fulton County District Attorney, along with other state and federal prosecutors, reaffirms the shared belief that in America no one, not even the president, is above the law,’ the statement continued. ‘As a nation built on the rule of law, we urge Mr. Trump, his supporters, and his critics to allow the legal process to proceed without outside interference.’ 

Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia on Monday night in connection with their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act;  Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

‘Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November 3, 2020. One of the states he lost was Georgia,’ the indictment states. ‘Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.’ 

This is the fourth time Trump has been indicted. Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted on criminal charges. 

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis gave former President Donald Trump and the 18 other individuals named in Monday’s grand jury indictment until August 25 to surrender.

Willis held a press conference late Monday after a Fulton County grand jury handed up charges against the former president and several others.

The Georgia district attorney gave Trump and the other 18 individuals in the indictment until noon on August 25 to surrender to law enforcement.

Willis, Monday night during a press conference, said she would like a trial to take place within six months. 

‘Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November 3, 2020. One of the states he lost was Georgia,’ the indictment states.

‘Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.’ 

The 97-page indictment contains 41 felony counts against Trump and the 18 defendants and alleges they ‘unlawfully conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere.’

The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act;  Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.This is the fourth time Trump has been indicted. Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted on criminal charges.

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, and others, were also charged out of the years-long investigation.

This is the fourth time Trump has been indicted. Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted on criminal charges.

Following the 2020 presidential election, Trump reportedly insisted during a phone call with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that he had won the state of Georgia. Trump urged him to ‘find’ enough votes to reverse the state’s results.

Trump also reportedly said: ‘All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.’

Georgia certified election results showing that Trump’s Democratic opponent Joe Biden won the state’s Nov. 3 election by 11,779 votes.

In the weeks following the election, Trump refused to concede to then-President-elect Joe Biden, and his campaign launched a number of legal challenges. Trump also allegedly urged states with Republican governors and legislatures to overturn Biden’s victories.

A special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, this year released portions of a report detailing findings from the investigation. That report indicated a majority of the grand jury believes one or more witnesses may have committed perjury in their testimony and recommends that prosecutors pursue indictments against them, if the district attorney finds the evidence compelling.

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed reporting.

The former legal counsel for Al Gore who challenged – and lost – the presidential election results in 2000 says Gore’s team did ‘the same thing’ as what a Georgia prosecutor is claiming Trump committed as a crime. 

Donald Trump is facing a fourth indictment, this time from Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, involving allegations that Trump sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. 

Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, speaking to Fox News Digital, criticized the pending indictment, calling Trump’s actions  ‘very similar’ to that of Al Gore’s legal strategy in the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 presidential election. 

‘We challenged the election, and we did much of the things that are being done today and people praised us. I wrote a bestselling book called ‘Supreme Injustice. Now they’re making it a crime,’ Dershowitz said.

On Monday a grand jury returned an indictment of Trump after a years-long criminal investigation led by state prosecutors in Georgia into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, and others, were also charged out of the years-long investigation.

The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act;  Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

Dershowitz, in speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday evening, said it would be wrong to ‘expand’ the RICO statute to ‘include political objections,’ including ones that members of the Democrat party have made. 

‘You cannot start making crimes out of things that the Democrats did — Tilden Hayes, John Kennedy election 2000 election 2016 election, Jamie Raskin gets up and does some of the same things. These are political actions that the Constitution prefers us to take rather than going out on the streets and rioting. We’re supposed to go to court. We’re supposed to go to Congress. You can’t make those things crimes. And you can’t expand the RICO statute to now include political objections,’ he said. 

When Trump was disputing the results of the 2020 election, he made a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to help him ‘find 11,789 votes,’ 

‘All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,’ Trump reportedly said.

Georgia certified election results showing that Trump’s Democratic opponent Joe Biden won the state’s Nov. 3 election by 11,779 votes.

Dershowitz compared the call to Gore’s legal strategy in 2000. 

‘It’s pretty much the same thing I did and Professor Lawrence Tribe did, and those of us who were on the Al Gore team,’ Dershowitz said. 

‘I was representing the voters of Palm Beach County, and we were saying ‘please check this county, check that county, find this vote find those votes. We think there are more votes,’’ Dershowitz described. 

‘We did the same thing and Professor Tribe, wrote a legal memorandum essentially laying out a strategy very similar to the strategy for which these folks are being indicted today,’ he said. 

‘So if you look back at the 2000 election and the protests, I still think to this day, and I’ll say it here on television, that that election was stolen from Al Gore by Bush that he won the actual election. I’m saying that — are they going to come after me now?’ Dershowitz said. 

The district attorney’s office erroneously posted an indictment document earlier on Monday prior to the grand jury vote. They reportedly said that document was ‘fictitious’ and it was taken down off the website. 

Dershowitz commented that the indictments should not be taken seriously after the prosecutor’s flub.

‘Nobody should take the indictments at all seriously, because they announced the indictment before the grand jury even voted. So the grand jury is just a rubber stamp. And so, nobody should say, ‘Oh, the grand jury indicted, so it must be serious,’’ Dershowitz said.

‘It’s not the grand jury who indicted, it’s the prosecutors,’ he added. 

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report. 

Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the fourth time, this time in Georgia, on Monday night along with 18 others who authorities say were involved in illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Who are the 19 people indicted in the Georgia case?

Former President Donald Trump

The 13 counts against Trump include: violating the Georgia RICO Act – the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act; Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani, one of Trump’s most vocal allies in his push to legally challenge election results across the country, was also indicted on multiple charges including RICO charges.

Lawyer John Eastman

Eastman, a Trump-friendly attorney, reportedly pressed for certain states to appoint ‘alternate’ elector slates in order to help resolve disputed slates presented to Pence – the Senate president at the time – of the Jan. 6 tally.

Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

Meadows served as Trump’s chief of staff during the last days of his presidency and was allegedly warned about the possibility of violence ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol protests.

Former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro

Chesebro was described in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s earlier indictment as ‘an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.’

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark

Clark served as acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division during Trump’s final months in office. Colleagues have testified he was a ‘true believer’ that the 2020 election had been stolen, according to NBC News.

Former member of Trump legal team Jenna Ellis

Ellis, a former senior legal adviser to the Trump 2020 campaign, participated in Trump’s many legal challenges to various election results. 

Lawyer Ray Smith III

Smith represented Trump in his 2020 election challenges in Georgia and asked Georgia lawmakers to vacate election results.

Lawyer Robert Cheeley

Cheeley, a lawyer based in Atlanta, assisted the Trump campaign in presenting evidence it said showed voting inconsistencies and irregularities in Georgia, New York Times reported. 

Ex-Trump staffer Michael Roman

Roman is a Republican operative who once served as an elected ward leader in Philadelphia, according to Inquirer.

David Shafer

Shafer is the former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party who accused Fulton County officials of improperly handling the election process.

State. Sen. Shawn Still

Still, who currently serves as a Republican in the Georgia Senate, was one of the ‘alternate electors’ who participated in the alleged plot to overturn election results. He was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee.

Illinois police chaplain Stephen Lee

Lee, who currently leads a suburban Chicago Lutheran church, was allegedly involved in efforts to pressure poll workers in Georgia into claiming election fraud, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Harrison Floyd, executive director of Black Voices for Trump

Floyd was allegedly involved in efforts to pressure poll workers into promoting fraud allegations, also according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Publicist Trevian Kutti

Kutti, a Chicago-based publicist who represented Kanye West, is said to have traveled to the home of a frightened Georgia election worker who was facing death threats after being falsely accused of manipulating votes by Trump, Reuters reported.

Former Trump legal team member Sidney Powell

Powell, a former federal prosecutor, was one of the most vocal attorneys in Trump’s circle pushing election fraud claims.

Former Coffee County Republican Party in Georgia Chairwoman Cathy Latham

Latham, a former school teacher, is accused of helping Trump’s team gain access to county voting systems, CNN reported.

Scott Hall

Hall, a 2020 Fulton County Republican poll watcher, is a bail bondsman from the Atlanta area who is alleged to have helped Trump allies access voting equipment, the New York Times reported.

Misty Hampton

Hampton is a former election supervisor of Coffee County, Georgia, who is also suspected of helping Trump supporters access voting equipment.

Read the full indictment here.

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump told Fox News Digital his fourth indictment comes during a ‘dark period for our country’ but vowed to win the 2024 presidential election and ‘Make America Great Again.’

Trump was indicted for the fourth time Monday night—this time out of the Georgia probe into alleged efforts to overturn 2020 election.

‘Nineteen people were indicted, and the whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden,’ Trump told Fox News Digital during an exclusive interview late Monday night.

Trump and more than a dozen others were charged, including his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, among others.

The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act; Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer. Not everyone faces the same charges.

‘The racist and corrupt district attorney of Fulton County, which has turned out to be a murder capital of the world with among the highest violent crime levels anywhere in our country, just opened a fundraising site in order to benefit off the things she most campaigned on, ‘I will get Donald Trump,’’ he said, slamming Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Trump told Fox News Digital that this ‘is a continuation of the greatest and longest-running Witch Hunt in American history.’

‘This politically-inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my political campaign, where I am leading all Republicans—by a lot—and beating Joe Biden soundly in almost all polls,’ he said.

Trump blasted Willis, saying that it is ‘not even conceivable that a person with such a record of failure could be allowed to interrupt perhaps the most important election in the history of our country.

‘Just like she has allowed Atlanta to go to hell with all of its crime and violence, so too has Joe Biden allowed the United States of America to go to the same place with millions of people invading our country, inflation, bad economy, no energy, and lack of respect all over the world,’ he said.

Trump said that Willis ‘should focus on the people that rigged the 2020 presidential election, not those who demand an answer as to what happened.’

Trump is the first former president in United States history to face criminal charges.

Trump was indicted out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021 earlier this month. He pleaded not guilty to all charges–conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

Smith also charged Trump in June in his investigation into his alleged improper retention of classified records from his presidency. 

Last month, Trump was charged with an additional three counts as part of a superseding indictment out of that probe. 

And in April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts in New York in April stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation. Trump is accused of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign.

Willis gave Trump and the 18 other defendants until Aug. 25 to surrender. Willis, Monday night during a press conference, said she would like a trial to take place within six months – which would be by February 2024 – right as the GOP presidential primaries are ramping up. 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday charged political and legal aides to Donald Trump in the investigation into the former president’s alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

It’s first time, out of what are now four criminal indictments against Trump, that such senior aides have been roped into a case against him.

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and top attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman were charged out of the investigation. 

Others indicted Monday include: Georgia lawyer Robert Cheeley, former campaign strategist Michael Roman, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party David Shafer, publicist Trevian Kutti, former Georgia elections supervisor Misty Hampton Hayes, the VP of Black Conservative Federation Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Stephen Lee, former Georgia GOP official Cathleen Alston Latham, Shawn Micah Tresher Still, Scott Graham Hall, and Ray Stallings Smith III. 

Fulton County prosecutors charged former President Trump and all 18 others with at least one count of violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act. 

Other charges Trump and defendants are facing include Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

‘Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November 3, 2020. One of the states he lost was Georgia,’ the indictment states. ‘Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.’ 

The 97-page indictment contains 41 felony counts against Trump and the 18 defendants and alleges they ‘unlawfully conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere.’

The indictment states that the defendants and unindicted coconspirators ‘constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.’

The indictment states that defendants appeared at hearings in Fulton County, Georgia before members of the Georgia General Assembly in December 2020 and ‘made false statements concerning fraud in the November 3, 2020 presidential election.’

‘The purpose of these false statements was to persuade Georgia legislators to reject lawful electoral votes cast by the duly elected and qualified presidential electors from Georgia,’ the indictment states. ‘Members of the enterprise corruptly solicited Georgia legislators instead to unlawfully appoint their own presidential electors for the purpose of casting electoral votes for Donald Trump.’

The indictment states that the ‘enterprise’ made false statements in November 2020 in Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 

The indictment also alleges that the defendants ‘corruptly solicited Georgia officials, including the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to violate their oaths to the Georgia Constitution and to the United States Constitution by unlawfully changing the outcome of the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia in favor of Donald Trump.

The indictment also said Trump and dependents ‘corruptly solicited’ then-Vice President Mike Pence. 

Next, it says that on Nov. 15, 2020, Giuliani placed a telephone call to another unindicted co-conspirator and ‘left an approximately 83-second-long voicemail message for unindicted co-conspirator Individual 2 making statements concerning fraud’ in the election in Fulton County, Georgia.

‘This telephone call was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.’ 

The indictment says that on Nov. 19, 2020, Giuliani, Ellis, Powell and unindicted co-conspirators ‘appeared at a press conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on behalf of’ Trump and his campaign and ‘made false statements concerning fraud’ in the 2020 election.

The indictment lists other ‘overt acts’ that furthered the alleged conspiracy by Trump and defendants.

Trump’s indictment in Georgia is his fourth indictment this year—the first in New York out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe, and two out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his alleged improper retention of classified records and alleged involvement in Jan. 6, 2021. 

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in all cases. 

Smith charged Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira in the classified records probe—but neither of the two were involved in the former president’s political or legal operation, instead, serving as a Trump valet and a property manager at Mar-a-Lago, respectively.  

In Smith’s last federal indictment, he names six ‘co-conspirators,’ but those co-conspirators have not yet been charged and it is unclear if they will be. Giuliani, Powell, Clark, and Chesebro have been identified as co-conspirators; along with John Eastman. The sixth co-conspirator is unknown. 

Meadows, Giuliani, Powell, Ellis, Chesebro, Eastman, and others were subpoenaed last year to testify before the grand jury. 

The district attorney had been looking to see if Trump or his allies broke state laws to have the 2020 election results overturned in Georgia.  

At the time of the 2020 election, Meadows was serving as White House chief of staff.

Giuliani, Ellis, Powell and Clark, and Chesebro all came on to serve as top attorneys to lead the 2020 election challenges for the Trump campaign in states across the nation.  

The investigation in Georgia began after Trump reportedly insisted during a phone call with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that he had won the state of Georgia. Trump urged him to ‘find’ enough votes to reverse the state’s results.

Trump also reportedly said: ‘All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.’

Georgia certified election results showing that Trump’s Democratic opponent Joe Biden won the state’s Nov. 3 election by 11,779 votes.

Georgia Fulton County Districrt Attorney Fani Willis gave Trump and the 18 other dependents until Aug. 25 to surrender. Willis, Monday night during a press conference, said she would like a trial to take place within six months. 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis deflected when asked how a draft of the indictment leaked Monday prior to the grand jury voting to charge former President Trump and 18 others.

Trump, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, and others, were also charged out of the years-long investigation.

The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act—the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act;  Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;  Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

On Monday afternoon, the Fulton County Court’s website posted a document listing the same charges included in the indictment released late Monday night.

Reuters first reported on the document, before the Fulton County Court quickly removed it from the website.

‘The Office of the Fulton County Clerk or Superior and Magistrate Courts has learned of a fictitious document that has been circulated online and reported by various media outlets to The Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury,’ the court said in a statement Monday afternoon. ‘While there have been no documents filed today regarding such, all members of the media should be reminded that documents that do not bear an official case number, filing date, and the name of The Clerk of Courts, in concert, are not considered official filings and should not be treated as such.’

Trump attorneys Drew Findling and Jennifer Little slammed the Fulton County District Attorney’s office Monday afternoon. 

‘The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has once again shown that they have no respect for the integrity of the grand jury process,’ Findling and Little said. ‘This was not a simple administrative mistake. A proposed indictment should only be in the hands of the District Attorney’s Office, yet it somehow made its way to the clerk’s office and was assigned a case number and a judge before the grand jury even deliberated.’ 

They added: ‘This is emblematic of the pervasive and glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.’ 

But after the grand jury actually deliberated, voted and handed up the indictment, Willis held a press conference to explain the charges. 

When asked by Fox News for an explanation of the leak, Willis deflected. 

‘No, I can’t tell you anything about what you refer to,’ Willis said. ‘What I can tell you is that we had a grand jury here in Fulton County. They deliberated till almost 8:00, if not right after 8:00, an indictment was returned. It was true billed. And you now have an indictment.’ 

She added: ‘I am not an expert on clerks duties or even administrative duties. I wouldn’t know how to work that system. And so I’m not going to speculate. Next question.’