Donald Trump indicted for allegedly organizing a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election
for alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States, deprivatino of rights and witness tampering. He has denied wrongdoing and argued the prosecution is politically motivated while continuing to campaign for president in 2024.
“The attack on our nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy," Smith said in his brief statement to reporters.Those lies, he said, were"targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election."
They included pressuring officials to invalidate Biden wins in certain states, appointing"fake electors" to replace Biden slates and demanding that Vice President Mike Pence spike some Biden electoral votes when Congress met to ratify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021. "The Vice President pushed back, telling the Defendant, as the Vice President already had in previous conversations, 'You know I don't think I have the authority to change the outcome.'"“Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States," Pence said.
The indictment alleges that Trump induced Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to alter the state’s popular vote count and questioned the validity of President Joe Biden’s electors’ votes.
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