Ex-US President Trump Indicted for Attempting to Ruin the 2020 Election: “Riots Fueled By Lies”

The most significant legal challenge to the former president as he runs for re-election came when he was charged on Tuesday for his attempts to annul the results of the 2020 election.

The 77-year-old Trump has been charged with three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction in this, his third criminal indictment since March.

The trial for allegedly mishandling top-secret government information is already set to begin in Florida in May of next year. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, is expected to testify in that case.

At the height of what is anticipated to be a contentious and divisive presidential campaign, the fresh allegations increase the possibility that Trump may get involved in more judicial actions.

The joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, which was called to declare Democrat Joe Biden’s election win, is the formal procedure that is the subject of the charges made against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith.

In the 45-page indictment issued by a grand jury in Washington, Trump is also charged with attempting to suppress American voters by claiming falsely that he won the November 2020 presidential election.

The indictment said that “shortly after election day, which fell on November 3, 2020, the Defendant launched his criminal scheme.”

It said that the conspiracy’s goal was to use willfully false allegations of election fraud to challenge the validity of the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The attack on the Capitol on January 6 by Trump supporters, according to Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor at the Hague, was “an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.”

In a few short words, Smith informed reporters that “it was fueled by lies.”

“Lies by the defendant intended to obstruct a cornerstone function of the US government—the country’s process of gathering, counting, and certifying the presidential election results,” the court said.

White House quiet

Regarding the significant indictment of Trump, the White House remained silent.

Biden extended his beach vacation in Delaware and had dinner with First Lady Jill Biden before seeing “Oppenheimer.” Biden is running for reelection in 2018 and has previously referred to Trump as a “threat” to the country.

Six co-conspirators are mentioned in the indictment, but none are named, and Trump is the only defendant who is specifically named.

The indictment said that the defendant and his accomplices “used knowingly false allegations of election fraud to persuade state legislators and election officials to tamper with the results of the legitimate election.”

Trump will be charged on August 3 in court, and Smith said he will push for a “speedy trial.”

US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, a choice of former Democratic President Barack Obama, is anticipated to hear the case.

Despite having lost the election, the indictment said that Trump was “determined to remain in power.”

Accordingly, the defendant “spread lies for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” according to the statement.

These allegations were untrue, and the defendant was aware of this.

TRUMP ANGRY

Smith was attacked by Trump, who referred to him as “deranged” and said that he had released “yet another Fake Indictment” in an effort to “interfere with the presidential election.”

Why wasn’t this done two and a half years ago? In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump said. Why were they so patient?

“Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign,” he said. It’s “Prosecutorial misconduct!”

Trump has criticized the inquiry on several occasions, branding it a political “witch hunt” by the Justice Department.

In addition to being accused of mishandling secret information, the former president will stand trial in New York for allegedly paying a porn actress hush money on election night.

Prosecutors in Georgia are also investigating if Trump made an unlawful effort to rig Georgia’s 2020 election.

The investigation was started by Trump’s phone discussion with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, during which he urged the election official to “find” 11,780 votes to help him beat Biden in the state.

Trump was impeached while serving as president for collecting political information on Biden from Ukraine and for the events of January 6, but he was both times cleared by the Republican-majority Senate.