The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted former President Donald Trump last week over his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Here you all the details of the conspiracy
Donald Trump 2020 Election Conspiracy Case Explained
The charges against Donald Trump in the 2020 election case include conspiracy to defraud the government, tampering with witnesses, conspiring against citizens’ right to vote, and obstructing and attempting to obstruct an official procedure.
The 45-page, four-count indictment in the case is constructed using information provided by Trump advisers, White House lawyers and other members of the inner circle of Trump who told the former president there was no fraud in the 2020 election.
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The indictment alleges a week-long conspiracy by Trump to change electoral votes from Biden to Trump. It explains how Trump pushed allegations of fraud (even though he knew they were false) about the election, pressured state and federal officials to alter election results, and provoked a violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
According to the recent report, Special Counsel Jack Smith, investigating Trump’s bid to stay in office in 2020, and other prosecutors involved in Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy case, asked the federal judge to have the trials by Jan. 2, 2024, two weeks before the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
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In their court filing on Thursday, prosecutors noted, “This specific date is of particular significance here, where the defendant, a former president, is charged with conspiracy to nullify the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, to hinder the certification of election results. , and discount the legitimate votes of citizens.
Prosecutors also urged U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, overseeing Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy case, to address the matter at a pre-determined August 28 trial date and said ‘minimal’ classified information was involved. in the electoral affair.
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Smith’s team is prepared with all of its findings in the case and is ready to release most of the evidence it plans to use in the Trump trials by the end of August. The prosecutor’s team also estimated a 4-6 week trial to present the evidence in the case against Trump.
Responding to the news, Trump’s spokesperson accused the Justice Department and Smith of “blatantly playing political games.”
In a Truth Social article on Thursday, Trump wrote, “These bogus indictments against me didn’t come from the sky, they came from the most corrupt president in the history of the United States, Crooked Joe Biden, to from Rig & Steal another election. They shouldn’t even be allowed to move forward. They’re all about election interference and getting revenge on the Republicans for the Congressional hearings that are happening right now that show Joe Biden is a CROOK!”
While prosecutors in Trump’s 2020 voter fraud case want to start trials soon, before the 2024 primaries, the former president has spared no effort to press ahead with trials after the 2024 presidential election.
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Even Trump and his legal team have reportedly offered to move his 2020 election conspiracy trials out of Washington, saying he can’t get a fair trial and justice in the Democratic-dominated nation’s capital.
If the federal judge accepts the prosecutor’s request to open Trump’s trials for the 2020 election in January, he will try Trump three times in the first half of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump, who leads the GOP nomination in multiple polls, will face a trial in March related to New York state charges of falsifying business records to hide silent money payments to a porn actress to silence her about an affair with Trump during the 2016 election.
The former president will also face separate hearings in May in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence after leaving the White House in 2021.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in all cases, including the 2020 election conspiracy case. He has consistently claimed the charges in all cases as politically motivated to harm his 2024 campaign as he leads the presidential nomination against rivals in early voting states.
In US history, Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges. If found guilty in either case, he could face decades in prison.
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