Trump charged with criminal conspiracy to overturn 2020 election
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A federal grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump on four charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the resulting Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The former president has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday where he will be arraigned and is expected to plead not guilty.
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- A federal grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump on four charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's role in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the resulting January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The indictment is a culmination of a years-long process to hold both the insurrectionists and those who helped inspire them accountable.
DONALD TRUMP: We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.
- 30 months after the riot, the Justice Department has arrested more than 1,000 participants. Nearly 600 have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges, and another 100 or so have been found guilty at contested trials. Smith's indictment alleges that Trump knowingly spread false statements in a criminal effort to obstruct the certification of votes, mirroring the criminal charges recommended by the US House select committee on January 6 after completing its own 18-month-long investigation in late 2022.
The former president has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday, where he will be arraigned and is expected to plead not guilty. As the story develops, "Yahoo! News" will have the latest.
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