Former US President Donald Trump and associates have been indicted in Georgia for attempting to overturn a 2020 election loss.

For his alleged participation in attempting to rig the state's 2020 election, Donald Trump has been charged in Georgia. 

Obtaining the 41-count indictment from a grand jury on Monday, Fulton County, Georgia's district attorney, Fani Willis, stated at a press conference that the indictment accused "violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the election in this state."

Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Cheseboro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall, and Misty Hampton are among the 18 people charged with him.

In the 98-page charge sheet, the former president is charged with the following felonies, including:

committing a racketeering offense in Georgia

Public official soliciting oath-violation

a plot to pose as a public official

First-degree conspiracy to commit forgeries

False writing, drafting false declarations, and filing fraudulent paperwork

The indictment refers to the defendants as a "criminal organization" and charges them with perjury, tampering with witnesses, trespassing on computers, and other offenses.

Violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act), the most serious accusation, carries a potential 20-year jail sentence. 

The statute, which was created to aid in the dismantling of organized criminal syndicates like the mafia, aids prosecutors in establishing a causal link between subordinates who broke the law and those who gave them commands.

Mr. Trump, who is currently in the lead for the Republican Party's nomination for president, claimed Ms. Willis' probe was politically motivated.

The Trump campaign said in a statement that the district attorney was a "rabid partisan" who had brought "these bogus indictments" in an effort to sway the 2024 presidential election and "damage the dominant Trump campaign".

The statement read, "This latest coordinated attack by a biased prosecutor in a predominately Democratic jurisdiction not only betrays the trust of the American people, but also exposes the true motivation driving their manufactured accusations."

He is the only former US president ever to be charged with a crime.

Before the grand jury voted to return an indictment, a list of criminal charges against Mr. Trump posted on a Fulton County website earlier on Monday, causing uncertainty.

According to the document, Donald Trump was accused of racketeering, conspiring to commit fraud, and making false statements.

The document was described as "fictitious" by a Ms. Willis representative, who did not, however, explain how it wound up on the court's website.

The apparent clerical error was used by Mr. Trump and his allies as evidence that the procedure was unfair.

Federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, charged Mr. Trump earlier this month with plotting to rig the 2020 election, which he lost to Democrat President Joe Biden.

The operations of the Trump campaign in Georgia received a good deal of attention in that charge sheet. In that instance, Mr. Trump has entered a not guilty plea.

Georgia is the center of Ms. Willis' inquiry, a crucial state in the race for the US presidency that Mr. Trump just missed winning.

On a discussion with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021, Mr. Trump was overheard pleading with him to "find" the 11,780 votes he would have needed to defeat Mr. Biden in that state.

An alleged plan to tamper with voting equipment in one Georgia county and steal data is described in the indictment.

It also refers to an alleged plan to submit erroneous lists of electors, the people who decide who becomes president and vice president through the Electoral College.

On March 25 of the following year, Mr. Trump would also stand trial in New York for paying hush money to a pornstar. Additionally, he is scheduled to stand trial in Florida on May 20 for alleged crimes involving the handling of secret documents discovered at his Mar-a-Lago home following his election.

Mr. Trump also entered a not guilty plea in both cases.