Arizona accuses Donald Trump aides of trying to overturn 2020 presidential election

The former American president’s problems with the law continue. The US state of Arizona has charged 18 people with attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Donald Trump, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday.

Among the accused, American media name Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer of ex-President Donald Trump. The charges allege a conspiracy to divert electoral votes – a certain number of which elect a new president every four years – to Donald Trump in a state narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020.

More than 10,000 votes ahead

The attorney general of Arizona, a key state in the November election, said 11 local Republicans were included in the indictments, as well as seven others from outside the state. According to the Washington Post, the seven people include Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyers Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epstein, and Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer. The former president was not charged but was named an unindicted co-conspirator, according to the Washington Post.

Joe Biden won the southwestern state by just over 10,000 votes, but many in the GOP believed, without evidence, that there was fraud and that Donald Trump had won.

Despite Trump’s defeat in this desert state, his representatives still signed documents confirming his victory. After Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, Arizona is the fourth state to indict people who tried to create an alternative voter list.

All have been charged in Georgia

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and John Eastman have been indicted in Georgia along with Donald Trump in what is likely the most explosive of the four criminal trials he faces.

The new allegations come as Donald Trump is again running against President Joe Biden for the White House and continues to baselessly claim he won in 2020.