Who’s who in the landmark Fulton County indictment

Meadows was Trump’s final White House chief of staff. He played a key role in exploring ways to overturn the 2020 election. He was on the phone when Trump pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to change the outcome. He attended a December 2020 White House meeting where Trump considered using the military to seize voting machines. Meadows also visited the site of a post-election audit in Cobb County, Georgia. And emails show that he urged Justice Department officials to investigate shoddy fraud allegations, though that is not part of the charges.

Giuliani was one of Trump’s most outspoken lawyers in 2020, promoting unhinged conspiracy theories about the election. He appeared before Georgia state lawmakers three times in December 2020, where he peddled lies about widespread fraud in the state. Even after those allegations were investigated and disproven, Giuliani continued pushing the debunked claims. He also supported the “fake elector” scheme. He spoke at Trump’s infamous January 6 rally in favor of Pence using his role in the Electoral College certification process to nullify Biden’s win.

Eastman is a right-wing attorney who advised Trump on how to subvert the 2020 election. He devised and promoted a six-step plan for Pence to overturn Biden’s election victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on January 6. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors. A bipartisan array of legal scholars have said Eastman’s schemes were unconstitutional.

Clark was a senior Trump appointee at the Justice Department who tried to use his powers as a federal official to overturn the 2020 election. He drafted a letter, which was ultimately never sent, promoting false claims of voting irregularities and urged Georgia lawmakers to consider throwing out Biden’s legitimate electors. Clark lobbied Trump to make him the acting attorney general, so he could send the letter and have the Justice Department intervene in the Georgia election. Trump decided not to put Clark in charge after other senior Justice Department officials threatened to resign.

Powell pleaded guilty in October 2023 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. She was one of Trump’s election lawyers who promoted unhinged conspiracy theories about nationwide vote-rigging and filed meritless lawsuits to overturn the results. Powell was in direct contact with the Trump supporters who breached a voting system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, while searching for fraud. She was also at a White House meeting with Trump in December 2020 where there was a discussion appointing her as a special counsel to “investigate allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere,” the indictment says.

Ellis pleaded guilty in October 2023 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. A right-wing attorney who represented Trump in 2020, Ellis planned the hearings before Georgia lawmakers where Trump allies pushed baseless fraud claims that the indictment alleges is part of the conspiracy to change the election’s outcome. She also wrote legal memos arguing that Pence could block Biden’s victory from being certified by Congress on January 6, though that isn’t part of the charges.

While working for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, Roman was involved in unsuccessful efforts to use slates of fake GOP electors to block the certification of candidate Joe Biden’s election victory. During the campaign, Roman promoted baseless claims of massive voter fraud.

Smith, an attorney for Trump’s 2020 campaign in Georgia, also participated in a Georgia Senate hearing in December 2020 where he falsely alleged widespread fraud and voting irregularities and argued that the results “must be vacated and cannot be allowed to stand.” In the indictment, prosecutors allege that Smith made false statements at that hearing about illegal voting by felons and dead people.