(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, waived his right to an in-person arraignment hearing in Atlanta and pleaded not guilty to Georgia state charges that he conspired with his former boss and more than a dozen other people to overturn the result of the the 2020 presidential election. Meadows entered the plea via a court filing on Sept. 5, just as Trump did last week.
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All 19 defendants in the case waived their in-person arraignments and entered pleas of not guilty, ending the need for a day of short hearings that had been set to take place Sept. 6 before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. All of the defendants met an Aug. 25 deadline to turn themselves in for booking, including Trump, who surrendered a day early and posed for a mug shot — a first for the former president.
Trump is at the center of the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The former president, who is seeking to return to the White House in the 2024 election, is accused of leading a “criminal enterprise” to stay in office after losing the election to Joe Biden. According to the...
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