2023-08-02 00:01:28
He Former US President Donald Trump was indicted today by a federal jury investigating his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the special prosecutor’s office announced, and he is due to appear before judges on Thursday.
A Trump spokesperson confirmed that the former president was notified of the imputationreported the US television NBC.
The indictment names six anonymous co-conspirators who are not charged.
“Defendant and co-conspirators knowingly used false claims of voter fraud to get state legislators and election officials subverted the election results legitimate and exchange the electoral votes of defendant’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., for defendant’s electoral votes,” the indictment reads.
Also today, Trump was subpoenaed to appear next Thursday in federal court in Washington.
“It is further ordered that, meanwhile, the Government is authorized to make limited disclosure of the fact that the grand jury has returned an indictment and there will be an initial court appearance on August 3, 2023,” Judge Moxila Upadhyaya ordered, according to the Sputinik news agency.
This followingnoon, minutes before the court’s decision was announced, Trump announced that he would be indicted once more today by special counsel Jack Smith.
“I heard that the deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere in the 2024 presidential election, will release another false accusation once morest your favorite presidentme, at 5 (18 in Argentina)”, said Trump on his Truth Social platform.
“Why didn’t they do this two and a half years ago?” the former president wondered.
Prosecutor Smith said the Department of Justice will remain committed to ensuring accountability in the case that investigates the attempts to annul the 2020 elections leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
“In this case, my office will look for a speedy trial so our evidence can be proven in court and tried by a jury of citizens,” Smith told reporters at the Justice Department building in Washington, following the court’s decision was known.
Smith warned that this is only an accusation “and that the defendant should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
The Trump campaign criticized the Justice Department and President Joe Biden in a statement released shortly following the grand jury investigating him returned an indictment once morest an unidentified person.
He described the effort as part of a witch hunt and questioned why it would take more than two years “right in the middle of President Trump’s winning 2024 campaign” to bring charges in the 2020 election case.
“The answer is election interference! The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian and dictatorial regimes,” Trump’s office said in a statement.
The note added that the former president “has always followed the law and the Constitution, with the advice of many highly qualified lawyers,” according to several US media outlets.
Meanwhile, Republican candidate for Michigan attorney general Matthew DePerno, a Trump ally, was also charged.
The four felony charges once morest DePerno include improper possession of a voting machine and conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a computer or computer system, among others, according to The New York Times.
The jury indicted former Republican representative Daire Rendon on charges of falsehood and conspiracy to misappropriate a voting machine, according to the news portal Axios.
DePerno was one of the main proponents of the “voter fraud” theory promoted by Trump in the framework of the 2020 presidential election.
In addition to the investigation into the attempt to annul the 2020 elections, in which Biden became president, Trump will face a trial in May 2024 for mishandling classified documents, which included nuclear and defense secrets.
Thus, the process will take place in the middle of the White House electoral campaign, as judge Aileen Cannon determined last month.
In June, in a judicial hearing, the New York magnate pleaded not guilty to more than 37 charges and described that process as “electoral interference” by the White House.
Trump, recently convicted of sexual assault in a 1996 case, has other legal troubles, including an indictment in a fraud case in New York involving alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, with the who had an extramarital affair.
Also, last March he was criminally charged for a case of commercial fraud.
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