Former President Donald Trump and 18 associates have been formally indicted in Georgia for their alleged involvement in attempting to overturn the outcome of the 2020 state election. The indictment claims they operated as a “criminal enterprise,” utilizing methods reminiscent of organized crime to maintain Trump’s hold on power. The charges encompass actions such as pressuring Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to locate additional votes for Trump, mistreating an election worker, and striving to sway Georgia legislators into appointing electors favorable to Trump.
The indictment outlines a series of endeavors by Trump and his allies aimed at reversing his election defeat. This includes a scenario in which one of his attorneys supposedly tried to gain unauthorized access to voting machines and extract data from a voting machine company. The accused individuals comprise not only former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, but also other legal figures who endorsed legally questionable strategies to challenge the election outcome.
This indictment constitutes the fourth criminal case brought against Trump within a span of five months. It arrives shortly after the Justice Department’s special counsel implicated him in a conspiracy to overturn the election results. While the Georgia indictment overlaps with some aspects of the recent Washington indictment, it encompasses a larger cohort of defendants and characterizes their actions as part of a “criminal organization” or “enterprise.”
Trump and his allies contend that the investigation is politically motivated, expressing their dissatisfaction after an apparent pre-emptive leak of the indictment. The new charges further compound Trump’s legal predicaments, which encompass federal allegations of improperly retaining classified materials and a separate New York state case relating to falsifying business records.
Despite the escalating number of indictments, Trump persists in his campaigning and fundraising endeavors, presenting himself as a target of Democratic prosecutors. His Republican supporters also stand by him, discrediting the charges as baseless.
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Donovan was born and raised in the deep south of South Central Georgia, roughly two hours from the Georgia-Florida line. His father was a guitar player, farmer, and eventually blue color worker for GM. His mother suffered from Scleroderma starting a few years after he was born, so she became a home maker. Growing up as an only child, Donovan’s interest included music (though he really never learned to play anything) and anything dealing with technology, but specifically computers.
He has spent his entire life involved with computer technology either as a hobby or as a career. In his middle to late teens, he ran a BBS (electronic bulletin board system – the precursor to the modern day Internet). He learned about networking computer systems, building computers, and communication technologies as part of his career.
Later in life, he fulfilled his dream of running his own ISP (Internet Service Provider) when he was hired first as the Network Manager and eventually the General Manager of the Telecommunications Department for the City of Tifton, known as CityNet.
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