Trump indictment news today: Georgia DA proposes trial date as woman arrested over Jan 6 judge ‘death threats’

A Texas woman has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s 6 January indictment.

Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Texas, left a “threatening voicemail message” after calling US district judge Tanya Chutkan’s chambers on 5 August, based on courtroom paperwork filed with the South District of Texas Court.

Ms Shry’s voicemail included racist slurs towards the judge, federal investigators and the Department of Homeland Security mentioned.

The Independent’s Shweta Sharma has the story:

A brand new video has emerged that seems to indicate longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone working to overturn the 2020 presidential election, days earlier than the outcomes had been formally introduced in favour of Joe Biden.

The video aired by MSNBC on Wednesday was obtained by Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen for his 2023 documentary A Storm Foretold.

In the documentary, the filmmaker refers to Mr Stone, who served as a former adviser to Mr Trump throughout his first presidential marketing campaign as his “political godfather”.

The former New York City mayor and former Donald Trump lawyer flew right into a rage in an look on right-wing community Newsmax on Tuesday night time as he claimed that the Georgia DA’s use of the racketeering regulation was “sloppy” and that “I was the first one to use it in white-collar cases”.

“There’s probably no one that knows it better than I do,” he insisted.

Rachel Sharp has the story.

When audio of a surprising cellphone name between the sitting president of the United States and a Georgia official in his personal get together was revealed in January 2021, few severe political analysts had been satisfied of Donald Trump’s description of his “perfect” dialog.

On Monday 15 August, it grew to become clear that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, as properly as members of a grand jury, felt the identical means. The second when the incumbent president urged his supposed ally to make use of his place of energy to give you the precise variety of votes he would wish to win the election was cited twice in Ms Willis’s charging doc launched Monday night, and is now the supply of two of Mr Trump’s 13 felony expenses within the state.

The name was by no means speculated to be public. But the alarming nature of Mr Trump’s demand spurred Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to supply audio of their dialog to news shops nearly instantly — as soon as the shock wore off.

John Bowden has the story.

A sprawling indictment focusing on Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn election leads to the state of Georgia contains 18 co-defendants, together with his former White House chief of workers, a number of Trump-allied attorneys, and the so-called “fake” electors who joined a scheme to subvert the end result.

All are charged below the state’s anti-racketeering statute, marking one of many largest felony instances towards the previous president and his allies for alleged crimes dedicated whereas he was in workplace in an try to stay in energy at no matter value.

Alex Woodward and Rachel Sharp profile the previous president’s co-defendants.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Jenna Ellis has been compelled to crowdfund her defence charges after being indicted alongside the previous president this week.

Ms Ellis was among the many 18 associates of Mr Trump to face expenses in Georgia for alleged makes an attempt to change the state’s 2020 presidential election outcomes.

She posted a link to her fundraising marketing campaign on X, the social media platform formally recognized as Twitter.

“We will fight for Jenna. If you would like to help support our efforts please consider donating by clicking the link below,” a quote from her lawyer Mike Melito learn.

The fundraiser on GiveSendGo has raised greater than $14,000.

While it’s unlikely that the previous president will likely be sentenced to a whole bunch of years in jail, the chance of some jail time could be very actual.

Gustaf Kilander breaks down the numbers.

Donald Trump has been accused of contemplating not attending the primary Republican main debate as a result of he’s supposedly fearful of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has vowed to come back after Mr Trump.

Matt Lewis appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after writing a Daily Beast column entitled Showing Up to the GOP Debate Would Be the Ultimate Trump Flex.

“I’m curious to see if Donald Trump is afraid of Chris Christie, so afraid of Chris Christie that he doesn’t show up, that he uses excuses such as, ‘I’m not going to sign the pledge, the RNC pledge,’ or whether Donald Trump is just an egomaniac who craves attention, who loves attention, and who now feels that he has a bigger chip on his shoulder, has to unburden himself and play the victim again that he shows up in Milwaukee,” he mentioned, based on Mediaite.

“And I think I’m leaning toward the latter. He may not fully appreciate the danger that Chris Christie specifically poses.”

Gustaf Kilander has extra.

It was the URL heard all over the world.

On Monday, a doc seemingly asserting 13 counts towards Donald Trump was briefly revealed on-line on a Fulton County net system – earlier than being deleted simply as rapidly – kicking off rampant hypothesis concerning the looming indictment and immediately fuelling claims of foul play from the previous president.

The preliminary cost sheet appeared to indicate an intensive record of felony expenses towards Mr Trump stemming from the long-running Georgia investigation into his makes an attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 election outcomes, based on Reuters, which first reported the doc.

It was revealed hours earlier than the grand jury ultimately voted to indict the previous president and a gaggle of his closest allies for working a felony enterprise to overturn the 2020 election within the state and hold Mr Trump in energy.

The document, which may nonetheless be seen on the Reuters web site, was rapidly taken down.

Josh Marcus explains what occurred.

A particular prosecutor is prone to be appointed to research one in every of 30 unnamed and “unindicted co-conspirators” inside a sweeping racketeering indictment in Georgia focusing on Donald Trump and 18 of his allies.

The state’s present Republican Lt Governor Burt Jones, who was a sitting state senator on the time of the alleged crimes, was one in every of 16 “alternate” electors who falsely swore that Mr Trump gained the state within the 2020 presidential election.

He additionally pushed for a particular legislative session to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

But he was not among the many 19 defendants within the grand jury case from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was barred by a judge from indicting him.