WDAY RADIO — Former President Trump is being charged once again in his January 6th election interference case.
The charges come after the Supreme Court ruled last month that Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution from official acts in office. The Department of Justice said Tuesday’s new indictment reflects that ruling and the charges against Trump have been narrowed. Trump is accused of leading a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and disenfranchise millions of voters.
The Defendant’s Knowledge of the Falsity of His Election Fraud Claims
12. Throughout the conspiracies, the Defendant, co-conspirators, and their agents made knowingly false claims that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 presidential election. These false claims were unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing, and the Defendant and co-conspirators repeated them even after they were publicly disproven. These prolific lies about election fraud included dozens of specific claims that there had been substantial fraud in certain states, such as that large numbers of dead, non-resident, non-citizen, or otherwise ineligible voters had cast ballots, or that voting machines had changed votes for the Defendant to votes for Biden. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false. – Excerpt from the Charging Documents presented on Tuesday.
Trump is charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct and Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights. You can read the full charging document by clicking here.
