In February 2021, just one month after former U.S. president Donald Trump was caught on tape pressing Georgia’s secretary of state to "find" him votes, Fani Willis went to work. The Fulton County, Georgia district attorney opened a criminal investigation into possible illegal “attempts to influence” the presidential election, which soon became one of many investigations into Trump's behavior during and around his presidency.
After building her case and calling on a number of high-profile witnesses to a special grand jury, Willis officially indicted Trump and 18 others on August 14 for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Per CNN, the 41-count indictment states Trump and others “joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the election and “unlawfully conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate in a criminal enterprise” after Trump lost the election in Georgia.
