Two indictments of Donald J. Trump are already within the books, however the final result of a Georgia investigation into the previous president and quite a few his allies promise to be strikingly completely different.

While the circumstances filed by the Manhattan district lawyer and the Department of Justice have targeted totally on Mr. Trump himself, a long-running investigation into election interference by prosecutors in Atlanta has forged a far broader internet, with almost 20 folks already warned that they may face costs.

Fani T. Willis, the district lawyer of Fulton County, Ga., is main the investigation and has indicated she’s going to search costs by mid-August. A particular grand jury that heard proof for roughly seven months advisable greater than a dozen folks for indictments, and its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview in February that Mr. Trump was amongst them.

Since particular grand juries are advisory solely, Ms. Willis, a Democrat, will make her case subsequent month to an everyday grand jury that may hand up indictments, a course of that sometimes takes a day or two.

The Trump aides and allies whose conduct has been intently scrutinized within the inquiry embody Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s former private lawyer; Mark Meadows, the previous White House chief of employees; John Eastman, a authorized architect of Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in energy; and Jeffrey Clark, a former high-ranking official on the Department of Justice who sought to intervene in Georgia after the 2020 election.

There had been extra authorized volleys within the investigation on Friday. The Trump staff filed an amended petition searching for to have Ms. Willis disqualified and the work of the particular grand jury thrown out. Ural Glanville, the chief decide of the Fulton County Superior Court, issued an order recusing the entire judges in Fulton County from deciding the query and referred it to a different court docket.

Earlier this week, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected the same request by Mr. Trump’s attorneys.

The Georgia investigation, which began in February 2021, has examined whether or not the previous president and his allies illegally interfered within the 2020 presidential election within the state, the place Mr. Trump misplaced narrowly to President Biden. Among different issues, prosecutors have examined the recruitment of a slate of alternate presidential electors, even after Georgia’s outcomes had been recertified by the state’s Republican management.

They have additionally reviewed cellphone calls Mr. Trump made to strain state officers after the election, together with one during which he instructed Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, that he wanted to “find” 11,780 votes — yet another than Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s margin of victory within the state.

Because of the logistics concerned in bringing such a high-profile case, Ms. Willis has telegraphed a timeline for any costs she could carry. In May, she took the weird step of telling most of her employees to work remotely throughout the first three weeks of August, and he or she requested judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse to not schedule trials for a part of that point. In a letter despatched to 21 county officers, she thanked them “for your consideration and assistance in keeping the Fulton County Judicial Complex safe during this time.”

Even the previous president’s attorneys are treating an indictment in Georgia as a foregone conclusion, saying in a authorized submitting on Friday that “the District Attorney has indicated publicly that she is seeking a bill of indictment from a regular grand jury which was empaneled last week.”

Similar federal costs may be coming. This week, Jack Smith, the particular counsel investigating Mr. Trump’s makes an attempt to reverse his defeat, knowledgeable the previous president that he may quickly face indictment. But whereas Mr. Trump may theoretically derail a federal case or pardon himself if he was re-elected president, Georgia legislation makes pardons an choice solely 5 years after the completion of a sentence. Getting a sentence commuted would require the approval of a state panel.

Racketeering costs had been raised as an choice from the early days of the Georgia case. In an interview with The New York Times greater than two years in the past, when the investigation was simply starting, Ms. Willis mentioned the potential for utilizing such costs, with which she has lengthy expertise.

Whenever folks “hear the word ‘racketeering,’ they think of ‘The Godfather,’” she mentioned, earlier than explaining that costs underneath Georgia’s model of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act may apply in any variety of realms the place corrupt enterprises are working.

“If you have various overt acts for an illegal purpose,” she mentioned on the time, “I think you can — you may — get there.”

A lot of distinguished Trump advisers could face appreciable authorized publicity within the case, primarily based on a evaluation of court docket information and interviews with dozens of attorneys related to the investigation. Chief amongst them is Mr. Giuliani, who has already been instructed he’s a target who may face prosecution in Georgia.

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Mr. Giuliani peddled false conspiracy theories in hearings earlier than state lawmakers about secret suitcases of Democratic ballots and corrupted voting machines. He instructed members of the State House of Representatives, “You cannot possibly certify Georgia in good faith.”

Mr. Meadows was ordered to testify earlier than the particular grand jury final yr after dropping a authorized battle in South Carolina. In December 2020, he made a surprise visit to Cobb County, Ga., to attempt to view an election audit that was in progress there. He additionally talked to Frances Watson, the chief investigator for Mr. Raffensperger, a day earlier than Mr. Trump referred to as Ms. Watson and talked about “dropped ballots” and the necessity for a “signature check” in a rambling dialog.

And in court docket filings, prosecutors have mentioned that Mr. Meadows arrange and took part in Mr. Trump’s name to Mr. Raffensperger.

The conduct of quite a few attorneys who suggested Mr. Trump within the aftermath of the election has additionally come underneath shut scrutiny in Georgia, together with Mr. Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis.

In addition, Ms. Willis and her employees took appreciable curiosity within the conduct of Mr. Clark, although the Justice Department blocked their efforts to have him testify. After the 2020 election, Mr. Clark tried to avoid the Justice Department’s management and made false claims in a draft letter to Georgia lawmakers concerning the division’s findings relating to the election outcomes. In the letter, he additionally urged the legislature to take steps to help Mr. Trump in his efforts to remain in energy.

More senior Justice Department officers finally blocked him from sending the letter; Mr. Clark additionally failed in his efforts to replace the acting U.S. attorney general within the waning days of the Trump administration.

Mr. Trump’s attorneys have assailed the Georgia case of their efforts to derail it forward of any indictments. “It is one thing to indict a ham sandwich,” a few of his attorneys mentioned in a current court docket submitting. “To indict the mustard-stained napkin that it once sat on is quite another.”

Mr. Giuliani, entering the courthouse in Atlanta almost a yr in the past, mentioned that “we will not talk about this until it’s over.” His attorneys have mentioned that he did nothing improper in Georgia. Mr. Eastman defended his conduct in an interview late final yr with The Times and mentioned he was merely a lawyer providing recommendation and performing in good religion.

George Terwilliger, a lawyer for Mr. Meadows, didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Friday. He recently said that Mr. Meadows “has maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has a legal obligation to do so.”

Mr. Clark has additionally defended his conduct, and said earlier this yr that he had been “canceled as a result of the 2020 election, The New York Times, etc., and the Jan. 6th Committee.”

Norman Eisen, particular counsel to the House Judiciary Committee throughout the first Trump impeachment, mentioned the Trump staff’s makes an attempt to scuttle the case forward of any indictments wouldn’t succeed. “It’s a complete sideshow,” he mentioned. “None of the relief is going to be granted.”