Donald Trump has reacted to his latest indictment, calling it a “witch hunt” and attacking the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as “racist and corrupt”.
01.08.2023 - 22:29 / deadline.com
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for a third time on criminal charges related to his efforts to retain power in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
Read the indictment here.
He was charged on four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Trump had already signaled that he faced charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, rallying his congressional allies to claim that the justice system has been weaponized against him.
The charges stem from his efforts, in the weeks leading up to January 6, 2021, to block the certification of electoral votes in favor of Joe Biden, who won the election.
“The defendant, Donald Trump, was the forty-fifth president of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020,” the indictment read. “The defendant lost the 2020 election.”
“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power. 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 and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew they were false. But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated then anyway — to make his knowingly false claims legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.”
In a brief statement after the indictment was unsealed, Smith said, “The attack on our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment,
Donald Trump has reacted to his latest indictment, calling it a “witch hunt” and attacking the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as “racist and corrupt”.
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Donald Trump has been indicted yet again.
Well, here we are again! Donald Trump has been indicted on even MORE federal charges.
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