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From CNN: “Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to a court document.
“The former president has been informed of his indictment, two sources tell CNN.
“This is the third time Trump has been criminally indicted. Smith charged Trump in the classified documents probe in June, and a Manhattan grand jury charged the former president for business fraud in March.”
Trump has been charged by the Department of Justice with the following four counts:
- A conspiracy to defraud the United States “by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election,” according to the special counsel’s office.
- A conspiracy to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified.
- A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have that vote counted.
- Obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct and impede, the certification of the electoral vote.
concerning a president indicted for acts allegedly committed while he was President of the United States. The charges allege the most significant criminal prosecution brought in the history of the United States, because they could well bring us to the end of the electoral process and the end of democracy. Donald Trump, like every citizen, is entitled to be presumed innocent and the government must prove beyond its case a reasonable doubt. But read the indictment (see below). If the charges can be proved, they are devastating in detail. [Special Counsel] Jack Smith believes he has a very strong case. It is going to be tried in D.C. Hopefully they have a judge who’s going to move it fast. Trump is alone in this. He can’t stand behind co-defendants. I believe it was inevitable that Donald Trump would be indicted once they indicted and convicted for conspiracy the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, for how do you indict the foot soldiers and middle managers and not indict the kingpin? It was Donald Trump who was desperately trying to stay in office. He knew he lost but refused to accept it because he wanted to play by his rules. People refusing to accept the legitimacy of the indictments are almost operating in an alternative legal universe. But there is no choice but to go forward on a solid case. Smith had to bring these charges.”
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