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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been charged in a Justice Department investigation over efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He has been charged on four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States government and witness tampering. The indictment also mentions six unnamed co-conspirators.
Trump denies all wrongdoing related to the 2020 election.
The indictment accuses him of repeatedly lying about the election results, turning aside repeated overtures from some aides to tell the truth but conspiring with others to try to improperly change vote totals in his favor. It says that on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, he attempted to “exploit” the chaos by pushing to delay the certification of the election results even after the building was cleared of violent protesters.
Trump’s claims of having won the election, said the indictment, were “false, and the Defendant knew they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, to create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and to erode public faith in the administration of the election.
”Federal prosecutors say Donald Trump was “determined to remain in power” in conspiracies that targeted a “bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.”
The indictment, the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024, follows a long-running federal investigation into schemes by Trump and his allies to subvert the peaceful transfer of power and keep him in office despite a decisive loss to Joe Biden.
Trump is due in court on Thursday August 3rd before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
This story complied with information from the Associated Press.
(CGTN)
