Trump indictment live: ex-president charged with interference in Georgia election | Donald Trump News

Georgia has charged 18 of Trump’s closest allies and advisers with illegally trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Here are nine of the most famous names:

Mark Meadows, who went from being one of Trump’s key Republican allies in the US House of Representatives to his White House chief of staff, has attended White House meetings devoted to attempts to reverse Trump’s election defeat.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney, played a prominent public role in the Trump campaign’s efforts to push through false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Attorney John Eastman represented Trump in a lengthy process to overturn election results in four states Trump lost in 2020. The Georgia indictment alleges that he was part of a conspiracy to appoint fake voters.

Jeffrey Clark is a former senior Justice Department official. In the final days of the Trump administration, Clark attempted to persuade Trump to unseat acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen so he could take over the department and help prosecute Trump’s false claims by leading an investigation into voter fraud in Georgia and other swing States initiated.

Attorney Sidney Powell played a leading role in promoting false fraud allegations following the 2020 US election.

Kenneth Chesebro is a Trump campaign attorney who is accused in the indictment of helping to engineer a plan to submit fake electoral lists for Trump in order to prevent the US Congress from certifying the election results.

Attorney Jenna Ellis was part of the Trump campaign legal team that falsely claimed widespread voter fraud in 2020.

David Shafer, who served as leader of the Georgia Republican Party, played a key role in organizing and implementing the plan to introduce an alternative voter list.

Michael Roman, who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign, is said to have played a role in orchestrating the fake voter frame-up.