Monday, a Georgia court briefly released a document that appeared to contain charges filed against former President Donald Trump.
The document was removed, but not before individuals captured photographs purportedly displaying 13 charges against Trump, including felony conspiracy counts and a violation of the state’s RICO statute.
The court website in Fulton County, Georgia, where Trump has been investigated since 2021 for alleged offenses related to challenging the results of the state’s 2020 election, did not provide an explanation for the document’s deletion.
The document had a date of August 14 and was addressed to Fulton County Judge Rachelle Carnesale. Its status was “open.”
Georgia court website briefly published, then removed a document about potential Trump charges.
Here is the document. pic.twitter.com/s3SMTaS0AA
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 14, 2023
According to court officials contacted by Reuters, Trump has not been prosecuted.
In the one-page document, Donald John Trump is charged with multiple purported felony offenses and one “serious felony.”
Document contains charges for “Violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act” and “Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer.”
Among the charges of conspiracy outlined in the document are “impersonating a public officer,” “forgery,” “making false statements,” and “filing false documents.”
November 2020 and September 2021 are cited as the dates of the alleged offenses in the document that has been removed.
It is widely believed that District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been investigating Trump for two years, will indict him.
Her investigation was prompted by Trump’s contestation of the 2020 election results, in which he claimed pervasive voting irregularities cost him the Georgia election.
Willis directed county justices to clear their schedules for the middle of August, and Sheriff Patrick Labat has shut down the streets surrounding the courthouse.
Labat stated previously that he had sent deputies to arraignments in other Trump indictments this year in the case of a Willis indictment.
Labat added that Trump would be fingerprinted and photographed if indicted.
This year, Trump has been indicted three times.
Two federal indictments and a New York City indictment contain a multitude of allegations against him.