Donald Trump indicted for efforts to overturn the 2020 election
Former President Donald Trump has been hit with criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost.
Trump was charged with four crimes in the Justice Department’s investigation: one count of conspiracy to defraud the US government, one count of conspiracy to violate rights, one count of obstructing an official proceeding and one count of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding.
‘Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power,’ states a 45-page indictment handed down by a grand jury late afternoon on Tuesday.
Trump ‘spread lies’ around voter fraud for more than two months after the presidential election, alleges the indictment.
‘These claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false,’ it states.
The indictment also charges six unnamed co-conspirators who have not yet been charged in the overturn attempts. Among those who can be obviously identified are Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Trump on Tuesday announced he expected to be indicted that same day in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe on the January 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the election.
‘I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform just before that time.
Shortly after, a grand jury foreperson, the only individual needed to return an indictment, was seen in the courtroom of a magistrate judge in Washington, DC. A sealed indictment against an unnamed person was delivered to the judge, NBC News reported.
‘Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long?’ wrote Trump in his social media post. ‘Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!
Minutes after the indictment was delivered, the Trump campaign attacked the Biden administration.
‘This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins,’ stated the Trump campaign.
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