Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump with conspiring to seize a second term after losing the 2020 election, alleging a sweeping campaign of deceit and abuses that threatened the foundations of American democracy.

In a 45-page indictment unveiled Tuesday, special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.

“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power,” the indictment said. “So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false.”

The indictment identified six individuals as co-conspirators in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, but none of those people were charged Tuesday. Though the alleged co-conspirators were not named, the descriptions correspond to a cabal of Trump lawyers who embraced increasingly fringe strategies as Trump’s bid to remain in power faltered. They include Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro.

The indictment puts Trump at the apex of a wide-ranging scheme that included amplifying “knowingly false” claims about election fraud, pressuring state legislators to falsely assert that the election outcome was in doubt, assembling false slates of presidential electors to force a conflict and pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to attempt to subvert the election unilaterally on Jan. 6, 2021.

45-page charging document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.1.0_1.pdf

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/trump-indicted-again-00109286

1stGenAmerican:
You guys also said he would never lose the election or be arrested either—both have happened. His closest allies are turning on him. He’s on a roll—straight to the jailhouse.

1stGenAmerican:
You guys also said he would never lose the election or be arrested either—both have happened. His closest allies are turning on him. He’s on a roll—straight to the jailhouse.

mariovito:
Trumped up charges.

Donald got the trump card

Be sure he will trump them all.