The Trump criminal organization is an alleged criminal racketeering enterprise run by former President of the United States Donald Trump, who, in 2021, conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. In the weeks after the November 2020 election, Trump and his associates attacked the electronic voting company Dominion Voting Systems, claiming that the company was designed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to alter ballots. On 2 January 2021, Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state's election results and "find" 11,780 votes (just one more than the 11,779-vote margin of defeat), but Raffensperger refused to decertify the election. At the same time, lawyer Kenneth Chesebro conceived a plot to submit a slate of fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence ahead of Pence's 6 January 2021 certification of the election results; their plan was for Pence to certify the false slates, including one from Georgia, and hand Trump a second term. However, Pence refused to decertify the election, believing that it was not within the Vice President's power to do so. After the legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election failed, Trump rallied a mob of his supporters to storm the US Capitol on the day of the certification, intent on forcing the Congress to decertify the election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania. Even after exhausting all hopes of overturning the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his network of lawyers, conspiracy theorists, and political operatives - including disgraced Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, formerly imprisoned National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and far-right activist Sidney Powell - continued to spread lies about the 2020 presidential election.
In 2023, as the 2024 presidential election approached and Trump seemed poised to secure the GOP nomination for President of the United States, Trump became the subject of several indictments: a March 2023 indictment in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election, a June 2023 federal indictment related to Trump's mishandling of sensitive documents and conspiracy to obstruct the government in retrieving these documents, an August 2023 federal indictment related to Trump's conspiracy to defraud the government and disenfranchise voters by overturning the 2020 presidential election, and an August 2023 Georgia indictment related to his attempts to overturn Biden's victory in Georgia. It was in The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. (initiated on 14 August 2023) that Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis alleged that Trump led a "criminal racketeering enterprise" in which he and 18 co-defendants knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the 2020 election. By 24 August 2023, all of the co-conspirators had been booked at the Fulton County jail.
Members
Indicted conspirators
- Donald Trump - former President, obstructed electoral vote
- Rudy Giuliani - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- Ray Smith III - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- Cathy Latham - fake elector, obstructed electoral vote and breached Coffee County election equipment
- Robert Cheeley - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- John Eastman - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- David Shafer - fake elector, obstructed electoral vote
- Kenneth Chesebro - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- Mike Roman - campaign staff, obstructed electoral vote
- Shawn Still - fake elector, obstructed electoral vote
- Jeffrey Clark - Department of Justice official, obstructed electoral vote
- Jenna Ellis - lawyer, obstructed electoral vote
- Mark Meadows - White House chief of staff, obstructed electoral vote
- Scott Hall - bail bondsman, breached Coffee County election equipment
- Misty Hampton - Coffee County elections supervisor, breached Coffee County election equipment
- Sidney Powell - campaign lawyer, breached Coffee County election equipment
- Stephen C. Lee - pastor, harassed Fulton County election workers
- Harrison Floyd - Black Voices for Trump leader, harassed Fulton County election workers
- Trevian Kutti - publicist, harassed Fulton County election workers
Unindicted co-conspirators
- Tom Fitton - Judicial Watch president
- Boris Epshteyn - political advisor
- Robert Sinners - Trump's Georgia election day operations lead
- Bernard Kerik - former NYPD commissioner
- Phil Waldron - GOP operative
- Burt Jones - Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
- Joseph Brannan - Georgia Republican Party treasurer and fake elector
- Carolyn Hall Fisher - fake elector
- Vikki Townsend Consiglio - fake elector
- Ken Carroll - fake elector
- Gloria Kay Godwin - fake elector
- David Hanna - fake elector
- Mark W. Hennessy - fake elector
- Mark Amick - fake elector
- John Downey - fake elector
- Daryl Moody - fake elector
- Brad Carver - fake elector
- C.B. Yadav - fake elector
- Conan Hayes - America Project employee
- Todd Sanders - America Project employee
- Doug Logan - Cyber Ninjas CEO
- Jeffrey Lenberg - Cyber Ninjas analyst