Donald Trump indicted: Jack Smith claims 'lies by the defendant' led to Jan. 6

Kaelan Deese

August 01, 06:20 PM August 01, 06:29 PM

Special counsel Jack Smith announced Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was billed on four counts in a scenario encompassing alleged endeavours to subvert the 2020 election and disrupt the tranquil transfer of ability in January 2021.

"The assault on our nation's capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy," Smith reported. "It was fueled by lies by the defendant focused at obstructing a bedrock functionality of the U.S. federal government."

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The four federal prices incorporate Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Conspiracy to Impede an Formal Continuing Obstruction of, and Attempt to Hinder an Formal Proceeding and Conspiracy Against rights, according to the indictment handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury.

"From on or about November 14, 2020, as a result of on or about January 20, 2021, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, did knowingly merge, conspire, confederate, and concur with co-conspirators, acknowledged and unidentified to the grand jury, to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate 1 or a lot more individuals in the no cost work out and enjoyment of a ideal and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and rules of the United States — that is, the right to vote, and to have one's vote counted," the indictment reads.

Although the indictment lists six "Co-Conspirators," it does not especially mention individuals persons by identify but lists five of them as lawyers, 1 staying a "Justice Section formal" who attempted to use the DOJ to "open sham election criminal offense investigations and influence state legislators with knowingly untrue claims of election fraud." A "Co-Conspirator 6" is detailed as a "political advisor who help implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding."

Tuesday marked the next federal indictment the previous president faces out of Smith's investigation. He is also dealing with charges in a individual situation together with willful retention of national defense details, conspiracy to hinder justice, and phony statements. Trump was also charged with an additional three counts as section of a superseding indictment out of that circumstance on July 27.