Georgia's case against Trump: What to know about the 18 co-defendants |

USA TODAY'S correspondent Josh Meyer breaks down what we know about the 18 co-defendants In Donald Trump's grand Jury Indictment in Georgia.

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For former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and their 17 other co-defendants, the threat of jail time is getting very real for those charged, arrested and booked in the Georgia election fraud case.

After trying desperately to avoid arrest by having his case transferred to federal court, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows surrendered Thursday afternoon. He is now in the same boat as his 18 fellow defendants in the Georgia case, even as Meadows is widely believed to be cooperating to some degree - with Special Counsel Jack Smith and his federal prosecutors
who brought their own conspiracy case against Trump In Washington. And one of the Georgia state false electors has blamed Trump,

saying his group was only following the orders of the

commander-in-chief