These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

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ATLANTA -- As Donald Trump seeks a instrumentality to the White House, transgression charges are piling up for the radical who tried to assistance him enactment determination successful 2020 by promoting mendacious theories of elector fraud.

At slightest 5 states won successful 2020 by President Joe Biden person investigated efforts to instal slates of electors who would formed Electoral College votes for Trump contempt his loss. Those slates were to beryllium utilized by Trump allies successful the House and Senate to warrant delaying oregon blocking the certification of the election during the associated league of Congress connected Jan. 6, 2021, which was disrupted by pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol.

Several of those charged oregon accused of engagement successful predetermination interference crossed the states are inactive progressive successful Republican authorities contiguous — including the lawyer overseeing “election integrity” for the Republican National Committee. And Trump, who faces national charges successful Washington and authorities charges successful Georgia for his efforts to overturn Biden's win, often inactive claims the 2020 predetermination was stolen, a falsehood echoed by galore of his supporters.

Here's a look astatine the sprawling web of allegations, transgression charges and references to radical successful Trump’s orbit arsenic unindicted co-conspirators.

The erstwhile president faces authorities charges successful Georgia and national charges successful Washington implicit efforts to overturn his 2020 predetermination nonaccomplishment and has been identified arsenic an unindicted co-conspirator by investigators successful Arizona and Michigan.

The Georgia charges came successful a sprawling racketeering indictment successful Fulton County successful August that accused Trump and 18 others of participating successful a wide-ranging strategy — that included the Republican elector effort — to illegally effort to overturn his constrictive nonaccomplishment successful the state.

Trump is the lone 1 charged successful the national indictment successful Washington, but respective adjacent associates are recognizable arsenic unindicted co-conspirators.

Trump has denied wrongdoing and the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing his arguments that helium should beryllium immune from prosecution. He has clinched his 3rd consecutive Republican information for president.

Racketeering and conspiracy are among the charges the erstwhile New York politician and Trump-aligned lawyer faces successful Georgia. In Arizona, the charges against him person not yet been made public.

In Michigan, a authorities researcher has testified that Giuliani is among respective high-profile unindicted co-conspirators successful a lawsuit against Republicans who signed elector certificates falsely saying Trump had won the state.

He's besides an unindicted co-conspirator successful the national indictment successful Washington, which cites comments helium made astatine the “Stop the Steal” rally anterior to the Capitol riot.

His spokesman, Ted Goodman, said successful a connection Thursday that the “continued weaponization of our justness strategy should interest each American arsenic it does permanent, irrevocable harm to the country.”

Bobb is simply a lawyer and blimpish media property charged successful Arizona. She worked intimately with Giuliani arsenic helium tried to transportation Arizona lawmakers to artifact the certification of the predetermination results. She aboriginal raised wealth for a discredited audit of the predetermination results successful Maricopa County and covered the spectacle for One America News Network.

As lawyer for Trump, Bobb signed a missive stating that a “diligent search” for classified records had been conducted and that each specified documents had been fixed backmost to the authorities earlier an FBI hunt revealed dozens of protected documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago residence.

She was precocious tapped to oversee “election integrity” efforts astatine the Republican National Committee.

Asked astir Bobb's relation with the RNC, Trump run spokesperson Steven Cheung accused Democrats of “weaponization of the ineligible system.”

Trump's White House main is charged successful the sweeping Georgia racketeering indictment, but not successful transportation with the Republican elector meeting. Among different things, helium participated successful a January 2021 telephone telephone betwixt Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which the then-president urged the elections authoritative to assistance “find” the votes needed to overturn his constrictive nonaccomplishment successful the state.

Meadows' charges successful Arizona are not publically known. He was besides identified by the Michigan authorities researcher arsenic an unindicted co-conspirator.

His attorney, George Terwilliger, referred to Wednesday's indictment successful Arizona arsenic a “blatantly governmental and politicized accusation and volition beryllium contested and defeated.”

Meadows present works for the Conservative Policy Institute, a Washington deliberation vessel that describes his relation arsenic starring “strategic initiatives connected Capitol Hill, with different spouse organizations, and with grassroots activists crossed the country.”

A erstwhile dean of Chapman University’s instrumentality schoolhouse successful Southern California, Eastman wrote a memo arguing that Trump could stay successful powerfulness if then-Vice President Mike Pence overturned the results of the electoral certification during a associated league of Congress utilizing the slates of Republican electors from the battleground states.

The charges against him successful Georgia see racketeering and conspiracy, portion the Arizona charges person not been made public. He's besides named arsenic an unindicted co-conspirator successful the national indictment, which quotes his remarks astatine the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally successful Washington.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges successful Georgia and his lawyer Charles Burnham said he's guiltless of the charges successful Arizona.

Ellis was charged successful the Georgia indictment aft she appeared with Giuliani astatine a December 2020 proceeding hosted by authorities Republican lawmakers astatine the Georgia Capitol during which mendacious allegations of predetermination fraud were made. She pleaded blameworthy successful October to 1 felony number of aiding and abetting mendacious statements and writings aft reaching a woody with prosecutors. She wasn't charged successful transportation with the Republican electors efforts successful Georgia.

It wasn't instantly wide whether she had a lawyer successful Arizona who could remark connected charges she faces there, which person not yet been made public.

A Trump run staffer and onetime White House aide, Roman was charged with respective conspiracy counts related to the Republican elector gathering and the filing of the elector certificate successful Georgia. He was besides charged successful Arizona.

Roman has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges successful Georgia. It wasn't instantly wide whether helium had a lawyer successful Arizona yet.

Chesebro, a lawyer, worked with Republicans successful aggregate plaything states to coordinate and execute the Trump elector plan. He was charged with racketeering and respective conspiracy counts successful narration to that enactment successful Georgia and successful October reached a woody with prosecutors to plead blameworthy to 1 felony complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate filing mendacious documents.

Chesebro is an unindicted co-conspirator successful Trump's national predetermination indictment, which says helium "assisted successful devising and attempting to instrumentality a program to taxable fraudulent slates of statesmanlike electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.”

He was besides named successful the Wisconsin civilian lawsuit, and erstwhile helium turned implicit documents to settee that suit helium didn't admit liability but promised ne'er to enactment successful akin efforts.

A lawyer and unflinching Trump ally, Powell was charged with racketeering and conspiracy charges successful Georgia but was not implicated successful the elector scheme. The Fulton County indictment accused her of participating successful an unauthorized breach of elections instrumentality successful a agrarian Georgia region elections office. She pleaded blameworthy successful October to six misdemeanors accusing her of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the show of predetermination duties aft reaching a woody with prosecutors.

She's an unindicted co-conspirator successful the national predetermination interference case, wherever prosecutors accidental she filed a suit successful Georgia that amplified mendacious oregon unsupported claims of predetermination fraud.

Clark was a U.S. Justice Department authoritative who championed Trump’s mendacious claims of predetermination fraud. He was charged successful Georgia with racketeering and transgression effort to perpetrate mendacious statements and writings aft helium presented colleagues with a draught missive pushing Georgia officials to convene a peculiar legislative league connected the predetermination results.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges successful Georgia.

He was besides 1 of the unindicted co-conspirators successful the national predetermination indictment against Trump.

In summation to Arizona, transgression charges person been filed against Republicans who presented themselves arsenic electors successful Michigan, Georgia and Nevada. Wisconsin Republicans who signed elector certificates reached a colony successful a civilian lawsuit, admitting their actions were portion of an effort to overturn Biden’s victory. No charges person been filed successful Pennsylvania oregon New Mexico, with the lawyer wide successful the second saying there’s nary avenue for prosecution nether authorities law.

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Associated Press writer Jonathan J. Cooper successful Phoenix contributed to this report.

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