Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal indictment against former President Donald Trump charges the 45th president with conspiring with six others for months to knowingly spread lies that there had b…
: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
“Co-conspirator number one,” who is likely Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was listed as an attorney who was “willing to spread knowingly false information” about the election that Trump’s campaign would not. Trump’s lies led to a violent clash between police and Trump supporters at the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, Smith alleges.The third co-conspirator, also an attorney, also made claims of election fraud that were “embraced and amplified” by Trump, although he privately told others the claims were “crazy,” according to the indictment.
Between Nov. 14, 2020, and about Jan. 20, 2021, Trump urged local election officials to undo voting results in their states, pressured Pence to halt the certification of electoral votes and falsely claimed that the election had been stolen. Judges rejected the notion.
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