Donald Trump indicted in Georgia over 2020 election | First Thing

Former president is accused of planning a criminal enterprise in his attempt to reverse his defeat

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Georgia prosecutors have indicted Donald Trump and some of his closest allies on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to reverse his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

What is this case about? Some details into Trump and his allies' aggressive push to invalidate the election results in Georgia.

Prosecutors charged 18 people in addition to Trump, including lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, and Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff.

Who is the Georgia district attorney preparing to face off with Trump? The office of Fani Willis, the first Black woman to serve as district attorney in Fulton county, spent more than two years investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election results.

Residents and historians are still processing the full scope of destruction in historic Lahaina, an 18th-century coastal town that once served as the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom and was designated a national historic landmark in 1962.