Spox for apparent co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani says Trump acted in ‘good faith’
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A spokesman for former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani accuses special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of threatening free speech and revealing a “two-tiered justice system.”
“Every fact Mayor Rudy Giuliani possesses about this case establishes the great faith basis President Donald Trump had for the actions he took in the course of the two-month period charged within the indictment,” said Ted Goodman, a political advisor to the previous Latest York City mayor, in an announcement to CNBC.
“This indictment eviscerates the First Amendment and criminalizes the ruling regime’s primary political opponent for daring to ask questions on the 2020 election results,” Goodman said.
Goodman wouldn’t confirm or deny that Giuliani is one among the six unnamed co-conspirators accused of assisting Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Giuliani appears to be Co-Conspirator #1, NBC News reported. That person is described within the indictment as “an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys wouldn’t.”
Goodman has previously told CNBC that Giuliani “has not been contacted” by Smith’s office “and he has no reason to imagine that he’ll.”
— Kevin Breuninger
Mike Pence: ‘I selected the Structure’
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said the indictment of Donald Trump demonstrates that the previous president is unfit to steer the nation.
Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence, but “anyone who puts himself over the Structure should never be President of the US,” Pence said in an announcement.
Pence is running against his former boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and trailing far behind.
Following Trump’s loss within the 2020 election, he pressured Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory by refusing to certify the ends in the Senate on Jan, 6, 2021. Pence refused, and needed to be evacuated from the Senate chamber when members of the mob called for him to hung.
“Our country is more vital than one man. Our structure is more vital than anybody man’s profession,” Pence said following the indictment. “On January sixth, Former President Trump demanded that I make a choice from him and the Structure. I selected the Structure and I at all times will.”
— Spencer Kimball
Top Democrats: Trump’s ‘criminal plot’ appears in ‘shocking detail’
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called Tuesday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump the “most serious and most consequential up to now.”
“This indictment is essentially the most serious and most consequential up to now and can stand as a stark reminder to generations of Americans that nobody, including a president of the US, is above the law,” the 2 lawmakers wrote in an announcement.
Schumer and Jeffries called the events that unfolded on Jan. 6. “one among the saddest and most infamous days in American history.”
“The third indictment of Mr. Trump illustrates in shocking detail that the violence of that day was the culmination of a months-long criminal plot led by the previous president to defy democracy and overturn the need of the American people,” the 2 lawmakers wrote.
— Amanda Macias
Trump raised nearly $250 million pushing fake election claims within the weeks before Jan. 6
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The House select committee that investigated the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021 said of their final report that Donald Trump raised nearly $250 million between Election Day and Jan. 6 as the previous president’s tried and didn’t fight the election ends in court.
“Evidence gathered by the Committee indicates that President Trump raised roughly one quarter of a billion dollars in fundraising efforts between the election and January sixth.141 Those solicitations persistently claimed and referred to election fraud that didn’t exist,” the committee said of their final report.
The committee, which sent a criminal referral of Trump to the Department of Justice, lays out intimately inside their final report how Trump and his team successfully convinced donors to fund their fight to overturn the outcomes of an election lots of Trump’s advisors knew he had lost.
The Republican National Committee “knew that President Trump’s claims about winning the election were baseless and that additional donations wouldn’t help him secure an extra term in office,” in response to the report.
Still, the RNC ” walked as near the road as they dared—making several changes to fundraising copy that seemingly protected the RNC from legal exposure while still spreading and counting on President Trump’s known lies and misrepresentations.”
– Brian Schwartz
The view from Delaware: Biden and first lady have dinner out and go to the films
While Trump stared down his third criminal indictment, President Joe Biden had his eyes on a special type of bombshell.
The president and first lady Jill Biden arrived at a movie show in Delaware on Tuesday evening to see “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film in regards to the development of the atomic bomb, in response to White House reporters.
The Bidens ate dinner beforehand at a close-by restaurant called Matt’s Fish Camp, described as “cute” by the press pool.
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The primary couple had arrived in Delaware on Friday for a vacation at their beach house in Rehoboth Beach. They were seen biking on Monday.
— Kevin Breuninger
Georgia mentioned 48 times in Trump indictment
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The state of Georgia is mentioned by name 48 times within the Trump indictment, greater than any of the opposite six states where the previous president tried to reverse his loss within the 2020 election.
Georgia can be where a neighborhood prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, soon could announce state criminal charges against Trump for his try to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory there in 2020.
4 pages in the brand new federal indictment detail Trump’s give attention to Georgia, where he falsely alleged there had been election fraud.
“Wow! Blockbuster testimony happening right away in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to go away the big counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone results in a simple win of the State!” Trump tweeted on Dec. 3, 2020, the indictment notes.
A month later, 4 days before Congress was as a consequence of certify the Electoral College’s results, Trump “and others called Georgia’s Secretary of State,” the indictment says.
“Through the call, the Defendant [Trump] lied to the Georgia Secretary of State to induce him to change Georgia’s popular vote count and call into query the validity of the Biden electors’ votes, which had been transmitted to Congress weeks before.”
— Dan Mangan
Former January 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson calls for a ‘fair trial’ for Trump
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chair of the now-defunct House select committee on the January 6 riot on the Capitol, said Trump and conspirators should receive a good trial after news of the previous’s president indictment dropped.
“January sixth was a test of American democracy, however the fair trials of those responsible will further display this Nation’s commitment to the rule of law and hold accountable those that attempted to undermine it,” Thompson tweeted Tuesday.
Trump was indicted for, amongst other things, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding while the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election were being certified on Jan. 6, 2021.
— Chelsey Cox
Trump fundraises off indictment moments after charges are released
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Former President Donald Trump is back to fundraising off of the most recent federal indictment against him just days after it was revealed that his allied political motion committee has spent over $20 million on his legal fees.
The e-mail appeal, which was blasted out inside moments of the indictment’s release, follows a well-known pattern portraying Trump as a martyr.
“They know that I’m the one candidate who can dismantle the Deep State and end their stranglehold on our nation. So, their only hope is to attempt to send me to JAIL for the remainder of my life,” the letter reads.
Trump calls on his supporters to donate to “show that you’ll NEVER SURRENDER our country to tyranny because the Deep State thugs attempt to JAIL me for all times – for 1,500% impact,” He then calls on donors to present anywhere from $24 to $250 and shows a video of Trump within the background and an unconfirmed, scrolling list of donors, dubbed “patriots who declared ‘I won’t ever give up.'”
The House select committee that investigated the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, said of their final report that Trump raised nearly $250 million between Election Day and Jan. 6.
— Brian Schwartz
‘Trump is morally responsible’ for Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, GOP rival Asa Hutchinson says
Republican U.S. presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks as he’s interviewed by Former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson (not pictured) in the course of the Family Leadership Summit on the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, July 14, 2023.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said President Donald Trump is “morally responsible” for the violent mob attack against Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
Hutchinson said the U.S. justice system will now determine whether Trump is criminally liable for his try to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Hutchinson has launched a longshot bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on a more moderate platform than his rivals.
— Spencer Kimball
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the Trump indictment is a DOJ distraction for Hunter Biden dealings
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused the Justice Department of attempting to distract from recent allegations regarding Hunter Biden’s business dealings in his response to Trump’s latest indictment.
McCarthy, R-Calif., laid out how he viewed the events leading as much as the indictment, including accusations that Hunter, son of President Joe Biden, “received money from China (contradicting President Biden’s claim),” that the DOJ “tried to secretly give Hunter broad immunity” and that Biden “spoke with Hunter’s business associates over 20 times.”
“Everyone in America could see what was going to return next: DOJ’s try to distract from the news and attack the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, President Trump,” McCarthy tweeted Tuesday. Recent polling shows Biden and Trump evenly matched if the election were to occur today.
McCarthy vowed that House Republicans will “proceed to uncover the reality about Biden Inc. and the two-tiered system of justice.”
— Chelsey Cox
Trump used ‘deceit’ to subvert election ends in 7 states, indictment says
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The Trump indictment details how the then-president allegedly used “deceit” to get election officials in seven states to “subvert the legitimate election results and alter electoral votes.”
The states identified within the indictment were: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Latest Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
All of those states’ popular votes were won by President Joe Biden in 2020. And their combined 82 electoral votes were crucial to providing his margin of victory over Trump within the Electoral College, the entity that truly determines the winners of White House races.
If Trump had succeeded in getting the favored vote results swung in his favor within the seven states, he could have claimed a win within the Electoral College. But he failed in all seven.
— Dan Mangan
Attorney General Merrick Garland says special counsel has ‘followed the facts’
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that special counsel Jack Smith and his team have “followed the facts” of their case accusing Trump of unlawfully searching for to overturn the 2020 election results.
“Immediately after the January sixth attack on our democracy, profession men and girls of the justice department engaged in what has turn into the most important investigation in our history,” Garland said.
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The attorney general took only one query from a reporter following the indictment’s release Tuesday evening. The reporter had asked if the most recent charges against Trump marked the tip of Smith’s investigation.
Smith was appointed “to tackle the continuing investigation with the intention to underline the department’s commitment to accountability and independence,” Garland said.
“Mr. Smith and his team of experienced principled profession agents and prosecutors have followed the facts and the law wherever they lead,” the attorney general said.
— Kevin Breuninger
Trump held private meeting with Justice Department officials as he tried to overturn election
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Former President Donald Trump had a tense meeting with Department of Justice officials in January as he and his allies turned to federal authorities to attempt to overturn the 2020 election, in response to the federal indictment.
In early January 2021, Trump and a co-conspirator met with Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and other department leaders on the Oval Office within the White House, where the then-president “expressed frustration with the Acting Attorney General for failing to do anything to overturn the election results,” the indictment states.
As pressure mounted on then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to change the outcomes of the election, Trump told the group of officials, “Nobody here needs to be talking to the Vice President. I’m talking to the Vice President,” in response to the indictment.
– Brian Schwartz
Special counsel has notes Mike Pence took of Trump meetings
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Then-Vice President Mike Pence took “contemporaneous notes” of meetings with Trump because the then-president plotted to stay in power in early 2021, and special counsel Jack Smith has those records, the indictment against Trump reveals.
The indictment refers to a Jan. 4, 2021, meeting between Trump, Pence, the vp’s chief of staff and Pence’s legal counsel.
“Through the meeting, as reflected within the Vice President’s contemporaneous notes, the Defendant made knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, ‘Bottom line — won every state by 100,000s of votes’ and ‘We won every state,’ and asked — regarding a claim his senior Justice Department officials previously had told him was false, including as recently because the night before— ‘What about 205,000 votes more in PA than voters.’ “
The indictment also says that Pence “challenged” co-conspirator 2, an attorney who had proposed a plan that might have Pence reject or dispute seven states’ Electoral College slates, potentially sending the query of which candidates’ electoral slates can be valid back to individual states.
Co-conspirator 2 is the lawyer John Eastman, in response to Eastman’s own lawyer.
“When the Vice President challenged Co-Conspirator 2 on whether the proposal to return the query to the states was defensible, Co-Conspirator 2 responded, ‘Well, no person’s tested it before,’ “the indictment says.
“The Vice President then told the Defendant, ‘Did you hear that? Even your individual counsel isn’t saying I even have that authority,’ ” the indictment says. “The Defendant responded, ‘That is okay, I prefer the opposite suggestion’ of the Vice President rejecting the electors unilaterally.”
– Dan Mangan
Special counsel Jack smith says Jan. 6 Capitol riot was ‘fueled’ by Trump’s lies
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Special counsel Jack Smith gave rare public remarks after Trump’s historic indictment on criminal charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results.
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack was an “unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” Smith said.
It was “fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government,” Smith said.
He also praised the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol from the violent pro-Trump mob that stormed the constructing on Jan. 6.
“They put their lives on the road to defend who we’re as a rustic and as a people,” Smith said.
The special counsel spoke for lower than three minutes. He took no questions.
— Kevin Breuninger
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was in contact with Trump as he tried to overturn elections
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Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was in contact with former President Donald Trump when he was moving to initiate a plan to attempt to overturn the election results, in response to the federal indictment against Trump.
The charging document doesn’t name McDaniel outright. But she was the chair of the RNC on the time and continues to steer the committee today.
Trump and an unnamed co-conspirator were in contact with McDaniel “to be sure that the plan was in motion,” the fees allege.
They “told the Chairwoman that it was vital for the RNC to assist the Defendant’s campaign gather electors in targeted states, and falsely represented to her that such electors’ votes can be used provided that ongoing litigation in one among the states modified the ends in the Defendant’s favor,” in response to the special counsel
“After the RNC Chairwoman consulted the Campaign and heard that work on gathering electors was underway, she called and reported this information to the Defendant, who responded approvingly.”
A spokeswoman for the RNC didn’t return a request for comment.
– Brian Schwartz
DeSantis claims U.S. government was ‘weaponized’ but hasn’t read Trump indictment
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lashed out against the federal government and the FBI in response to the indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Yet the Florida governor said he had not yet read the actual indictment against the previous president.
DeSantis, Trump’s rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said he would “end the weaponization of presidency” and replace the director of the FBI if he becomes commander in chief.
DeSantis derided Washington, D.C., as a “swamp” and claimed it was unfair for Trump to face trial “before a jury that’s reflective of the swamp mentality.”
He said cases filed in D.C. needs to be transferred to a defendant’s home district.
— Spencer Kimball
Trump indictment describes six key co-conspirators
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The indictment says Trump enlisted co-conspirators “to help him in his criminal efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and retain power.”
Amongst those were six people, primarily attorneys, whose specific roles, but not names, were detailed within the indictment.
- Co-Conspirator 1 is described in that charging document as “an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys wouldn’t.”
- Co-Conspirator 2: “An attorney who devised and attempted to implement a method to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.”
- Co-Conspirator 3: “An attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded ‘crazy.’ Nonetheless, the Defendant embraced and publicly amplified Co-Conspirator 3’s disinformation.”
- Co-Conspirator 4: “A Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to make use of the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.”
- Co-Conspirator 5: “An attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.”
- Co-Conspirator 6: “A political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.”
Trump case assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee
Trump’s election interference case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, in response to the docket in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Chutkan, 61, was appointed to the district in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama.
She is the one federal judge in D.C. who has delivered sentences against defendants in cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot which are longer than the sentences that the DOJ asked for, in response to NBC News.
Chutkan’s task offers a contrast from Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge presiding over the previous president’s federal classified documents case. Cannon previously caught criticism from legal experts after she delivered rulings that favored Trump in a legal matter related to those classified records.
— Kevin Breuninger
Republicans come to Trump’s defense
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Supporters of former President Donald Trump in Congress rallied to talk out against the brand new list of indictments.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tweeted Tuesday that Trump “did nothing incorrect!”
“If you drain The Swamp, The Swamp fights back,” Jordan added.
GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., called it “one more dark day in America” in a scathing statement against the Justice Department and President Joe Biden.
“Today’s sham indictment is one more desperate try to distract attention away from the mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s illegal peddling scheme — one among the best political corruption scandals in history,” Stefanik said, adding that Trump “had every right under the First Amendment to accurately raise concerns about election integrity in 2020.”
—Chelsey Cox
Listed here are the 4 criminal charges Trump faces in latest indictment
The members of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol sit beneath a video of former U.S. President Donald Trump talking in regards to the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election as they hold their final public meeting to release their report on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2022.
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Trump was hit with 4 serious felonies in the brand new indictment, accusing him of fraudulently attempting to undo his loss within the 2020 election.
The primary charge, conspiracy to defraud the US, has a maximum possible sentence of 5 years in prison if convicted.
Two other charges — conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and obstruction of an official proceeding — carry much heavier maximums: 20 years in prison.
The fourth charge against Trump, conspiracy against rights, has a maximum possible sentence of 10 years behind bars.
– Dan Mangan
Special counsel Jack Smith to talk at 6 p.m. ET
Special counsel Jack Smith will make an announcement at 6 p.m. ET, the Department of Justice said.
The DOJ in a tweet shared a link to a video stream.
The rare remarks from the special counsel come lower than an hour after the most recent charges against Trump were unsealed.
— Kevin Breuninger
Trump charged with attempting to subvert 2020 election via 3 criminal conspiracies
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The Department of Justice indictment accused Trump of pursuing ways to discount legitimate votes within the 2020 presidential race and subvert the election itself through three criminal conspiracies, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office said in a press release.
The primary was a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. “through the use of dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation’s strategy of collecting, counting, and certifying the outcomes of the presidential election,” the spokesman said.
The second was “a conspiracy to impede” the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional proceeding where the election results were certified.
The third was “a conspiracy against the correct to vote and to have that vote counted,” the spokesman said.
— Kevin Breuninger
Trump ordered to look in D.C. court on Thursday for brand new indictment
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Trump has been ordered to look in Washington, D.C., federal court at 4 p.m., Thursday to face charges in the brand new indictment, in response to the office of special counsel Jack Smith.
Trump’s first appearance within the case will likely be before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya.
– Dan Mangan
Read the complete indictment against Trump
Trump claims ‘election interference’ — against him — after grand jury hands up indictment
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The Trump campaign attacked the Biden administration and the Department of Justice in a furious statement after the grand jury investigating interference within the 2020 election handed up an indictment.
The campaign in an announcement didn’t explicitly say that Trump had been indicted within the special counsel’s probe.
Reasonably, it said, “That is nothing greater than the most recent corrupt chapter within the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, wherein President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins.”
“Why did they wait two and a half years to bring these fake charges, right in the course of President Trump’s winning campaign for 2024? Why was it announced the day after the massive Crooked Joe Biden scandal broke out from the Halls of Congress?”
Trump himself announced two weeks earlier that he was a goal within the investigation.
But his campaign wrote that that “the reply is, election interference!” The statement compared the “persecution” of Trump to the actions of infamous dictatorships including “Nazi Germany within the Thirties.”
“President Trump has at all times followed the law and the Structure, with advice from many highly achieved attorneys,” the statement said.
The campaign predicted that the “un-American witch hunts” against him “will fail and President Trump will likely be re-elected to the White House so he can save our Country from the abuse, incompetence, and corruption that’s running through the veins of our Country at levels never seen before.”
— Kevin Breuninger
Trump’s Jan. 6 rally was bankrolled by Publix heiress and dark money groups
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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The rally that preceded the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021 was funded by high-profile Trump donors, like Publix heiress Julia Jenkins Fancelli.
A Fancelli run nonprofit donated $1.3 million in 2020 to Mothers for America, a dark money group that sponsored the Jan. 6 rally.Testimony from the House Select Committee ‘s probe into the events on Jan. 6 showed that Fancelli originally proposed a bussing project that might have cost $3 million.
Other dark money groups allied with former President Donald Trump, like Women for America First, helped organize and fund the rally before Trump supporters attacked the Capitol Hill. Dark money groups don’t publicly disclose their donors, but Fancelli has previously financed similar groups.
As Congress prepared to certify the Electoral College results and cement Joe Biden’s victory over Trump, the outgoing president encouraged his supporters on the rally to march to the steps of the Capitol and block the method.
– Brian Schwartz
Trump grand jury in D.C. hands up seal indictment against unnnamed individual
The grand jury known to have been investigating Trump for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election handed up a sealed indictment in Washington, D.C., federal court against an unnamed individual or individuals.
The indictment was handed up minutes after Trump said had heard an indictment against him can be announced at 5 p.m.
– Dan Mangan
Over a thousand people have been charged in reference to Jan 6. attack
Trump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, because the Congress works to certify the electoral college votes.
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Greater than 1,100 supporters of former President Donald Trump’s have been criminally charged for his or her participation within the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
The cases have been heard by at the very least 15 judges within the federal district court in Washington, D.C., and greater than 550 people have been sentenced, according to the Justice Department.
Sentencing hearings have included remorseful pleas from defendants, lots of whom have placed blame on Trump and his rhetoric for inciting them to act.
Speaking at a rally on Jan. 6., 2021, Trump encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol to protest the count of Electoral College votes, a historically ceremonial proceeding to certify the outcomes of a presidential election.
Hours after his supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly attack, Trump released a video statement from the White House.
“Go home, we love you, you are very special,” Trump said within the video, addressing the people attacking Congress.
Yet whilst he advised them to “go home,” Trump continued to repeat false claims a few stolen election and called his political opponents “evil.”
— Amanda Macias
What about Biden? Trump compares expected indictment to Hunter Biden issue
Trump raged in a second social media post that he apparently can be indicted on the heels of congressional testimony by a former business associate of Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden.
“Also, why are they putting out one other Fake Indictment the day after the Crooked Joe Biden SCANDAL, one among the largest in American history, broke out within the Halls of Congress???” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
“A Nation In Decline!”
Devon Archer, a former Hunter Biden business associate, departs following his deposition before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on the O’Neill House Office Constructing in Washington, July 31, 2023.
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Hunter Biden’s business associate Devon Archer gave a transcribed interview to the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Archer reportedly told committee members Hunter put Joe Biden on a speaker phone during business meetings a variety of times, but in addition said that the now-president didn’t discuss business along with his son.
– Dan Mangan