The former American president continues to make headlines.
Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in the District of Columbia.
“A grand jury investigating the efforts of former President Donald Trump and others to overturn the results of the 2020 election has returned an indictment, although the document remained sealed, and it was not immediately possible to know who was charged or what the alleged crimes were,” reported earlier The Washington Post.
The decision was communicated to Donald Trump’s team, as revealed by The Washington Post, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.
But the charges were made public quickly by other news outlets such as the World Street journal.
The 45th president of the United States is charged with four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against the rights of voters for inciting his supporters to attack Congress on January 6, 2021.
This is the second federal judicial procedure against Donald Trump. He is also implicated in relation to classified documents he had taken with him at the end of his term in January 2021.
“Although he lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power. Thus, for more than two months after Election Day on November 3, 2020, the defendant spread lies claiming that there was fraud decisive to the election result and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false,” reads the indictment.
Donald Trump quickly reacted after the announcement of his second federal indictment, calling Jack Smith’s decision a “pathetic attempt” to interfere in the 2024 presidential elections.
Upon leaving the White House in January 2021, Donald Trump took with him hundreds of classified documents belonging to the federal government. Despite numerous attempts by the Department of Justice, he refused to return the documents he had hidden in several places, including toilets at Mar-a-Lago. He also tried to destroy video recordings at his private residence in Florida, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Donald Trump is also the subject of a legal investigation in the state of Georgia regarding his attempt to corrupt the electoral process in the last presidential elections. In an audio recording, Donald Trump was heard exerting pressure on Georgia’s Republican government to change the results in his favor. He lost the election by more than 11,700 votes. Georgia is a crucial state in presidential elections.
The leader of the Republican party is also facing legal action in the state of New York, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted him for campaign violations.
During the final stretch of the 2016 elections, Donald Trump tried to cover up the affair with a pornographic star by paying $130,000. An affair for which his former lawyer Michael Cohen spent several years behind bars.”