Former President Donald Trump and 18 others have been indicted by a Fulton County grand jury for their alleged involvement in a scheme to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump's attorneys argue that the charges are based on protected political speech, but the judge disagrees.
The indictment issued in August by a Fulton County grand jury accused Trump and 18 others of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia after the Republican incumbentto Democrat Joe Biden. Trump ’s attorneys argued that all the charges against him involved political speech that is protected even if the speech ends up being false.
But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote that at this pretrial stage he must consider the language of the indictment in a light favorable to the prosecution. The charges do not suggest that Trump and the others are being prosecuted simply for making false statements but rather that they acted willfully and knowingly to harm the government, he wrote. “Even core political speech addressing matters of public concern is not impenetrable from prosecution if allegedly used to further criminal activity,” the judge wrot
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