Donald Trump's Legal Risks Deepen For Effort To Reverse 2020 Rlection

Trump - the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination - was indicted on Tuesday on four counts.


"Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power," the indictment said. (File)


Washington: In Washington, As Georgia state prosecutors appeared ready to file their own charges in the upcoming weeks, and as the former US president readied himself to face federal charges in a Washington courtroom on Thursday, efforts to hold Donald Trump criminally accountable for his attempt to rig the 2020 election were gathering momentum.

Leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, Donald Trump, was charged with four crimes on Tuesday. These crimes include conspiring to defraud the United States, impeding an official investigation, and attempting to deny voters their right to free and fair elections.


Prosecutors detailed a vast, multistate conspiracy in the 45-page indictment submitted by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The conspiracy was based on Trump's persistent, unfounded allegations that Democratic candidate Joe Biden's win had been tainted by massive fraud.

In order to try to win electoral votes in states he had lost, the indictment claims that Trump organized fictitious slates of electors and disregarded advisors who assured him the election was legitimate.

According to prosecutors, Trump and his allies deliberately spread those lies as part of a campaign of coercion to try and persuade state and federal officials to invalidate the election results. This effort culminated on January 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from accrediting Biden's victory.

The indictment stated that the defendant "was determined to remain in power despite having lost."

In a statement, the Trump campaign charged that the Biden administration was pursuing him for political advantage.

Campaign said: "The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of the former Soviet Union, Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes."

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith, a former chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, as special counsel. In order to protect the Justice Department from accusations of bias, politically sensitive investigations are occasionally given to special counsels.

This year, there have been three different indictments against Trump, 77, making him the first former US president to be charged with a crime. Smith was accused by his office in June of unlawfully keeping confidential materials after leaving the White House and impeding attempts to obtain them in a different case.

The Manhattan district attorney's office filed charges against him earlier this year, alleging that he fabricated financial documents to conceal payments of hush money to a porn star who alleged to have had an affair with Trump in the past.

In both cases, Trump has entered a not guilty plea and claimed that the election investigations and the related ones are all part of a coordinated "witch hunt."

For more than two years, Georgia's district attorney, Fani Willis, has been looking into allegations that Trump and his allies unlawfully meddled in the state's election. Within the next three weeks, Willis, an elected Democrat, has indicated that she plans to file charges in that investigation.


Public polls show that despite the constant barrage of scandal, Trump maintains a commanding lead over a group of Republican opponents in the 2024 presidential contest.

According to strategists, while the indictments might bolster Trump's support among Republican voters—many of whom think the charges are baseless—they might have a greater negative impact on independent voters than Biden in the general election.

Rather than infuriate Trump's sizable fan base, a number of Republican officials chose to target Biden, asserting that the most recent accusations were made for political purposes.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump's main opponent for the Republican nomination, promised to stop "the weaponization of the federal government" but refused to comment on the details of the indictment.


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