2023-08-01 23:36:00
Assault on Capitol Hill and attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, new indictment for Donald Trump. The former US president, who is aiming for the White House in the 2024 presidential election, has been indicted on four counts, including “conspiracy” against the United States. Six other co-defendants are also named in the indictment.
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The counts are conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights.
The tycoon anticipated the provision linked to the 2020 election investigation on his social Truth. “I heard that crazy Jack Smith, to interfere with the 2024 presidential election, will proceed with another false indictment of your favorite president, me” wrote Trump after a spokesman for the entrepreneur confirmed the indictment.
The former US president was then summoned to appear before a judge in Washington on Thursday, the Justice Department said. Trump will make his first appearance before Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya, who received the indictment against him on Tuesday in a hearing in federal court.
On July 18, Trump announced that he had received a letter from the ‘special counsel’: with the letter, the former president was informed about the investigation launched by a grand jury in relation to the assault on Congress on January 6, 2021 and attempts to subvert the 2020 election results that won Joe Biden.
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