Trump allies indicted in Arizona: report



Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and ex-Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among a group of 18 individuals indicted Wednesday by an Arizona grand jury on "felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery," according to Politico.

The Trump allies were indicted over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Per Politico, Trump has not been charged, and is described in the indictment "as an unindicted co-conspirator."

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"Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the indictment says.

The Washington Post reports:

Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.

The Post notes, "The Washington Post was able to identify all of them through the accounts of their alleged actions described in the indictment."

Politico adds, "The names of seven of the defendants, including Meadows, Giuliani and Roman, are redacted, but the document makes clear who they are by describing their roles. Ken Chesebro, an attorney who helped devise Trump’s post-election strategy, is described as 'unindicted coconspirator 4.'"

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Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is leading the investigation.



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