Indictment Has ‘Awoken the World’ to ‘Corruption’

Trump’s submit comes lower than a day after Special Counsel Jack Smith introduced {that a} grand jury in Washington, D.C., had indicted Trump on expenses relating to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The indictment claims that Trump was “determined to stay in power” after the election.

“So for more than two months following Election Day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election that he actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew they were false,” it asserted, failing to reveal how prosecutors claimed to know Trump’s pondering.

As Breitbart News reported:

The indictment doesn’t point out how prosecutors have been ready to set up what Trump himself believed, aside from the incontrovertible fact that he had been knowledgeable by others that his suspicions of fraud have been false; nor does it distinguish the case from the “Russia collusion” hoax unfold by Trump’s opponents, together with inside the Department of Justice, after he gained the 2016 presidential election.

There are a number of unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators in the indictment as nicely. These are 4 attorneys, a Department of Justice official, and a political advisor who labored on Trump’s technique to problem the consequence.

Trump was indicted on 4 counts, together with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to impede an official continuing, obstruction and try to impede an official continuing, and conspiracy towards rights. As Breitbart News reported, “Conspiracy Against Rights” features a penalty of up to ten years in federal jail and “adds that if death results from the actions covered under this provision, the offender may be executed.”

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