INDICTED FOR FREE SPEECH: Trump Indicted for Attempts to “Subvert” the 2020 Election

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Right after Devon Archer’s bombshell testimony on Biden bribery corruption. We have been overthrown.

When is this going to stop? Trump is leading in the polls by 50 plus points.They are subverting the will of the people. The 2020 was rigged, stolen. Persecuting those who question the fraudulent results are patriots.

These are “desperate regime trying to do everything they can to stop the man that will hold them accountable in 2025.”

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Trump Indicted for Attempts to “Subvert” the 2020 Election

Special Counsel Jack Smith announced the long-awaited charges today; the indictment is the result of the Department of Justice’s more than yearlong investigation into Trump for January 6, 2021.

By: Julie Kelly, Aug 1, 2023

Former President Donald J. Trump has been indicted by a D.C. grand jury on four counts for his alleged role in instigating the Capitol protest on January 6 and related efforts to prevent swing states and Congress from ultimately certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Special Counsel Jack Smith—appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over the Department of Justice’s existing investigation into “whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021”—announced the charges during a brief public statement shortly after 6 p. m. at the Justice Department.

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“Today, an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding,” Smith said. “The attack on our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. It is described in the indictment as fueled by lies.”

The case appears to be assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, appointed to the D.C. District Court by Barack Obama in 2014.

Trump responded on Truth Social:


The Allegations

“The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election,” the 45-page indictment began. “Despite having lost, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew they were false. But the Defendant repeatedly and widely disseminated them anyway—to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.”

Smith named six unindicted co-conspirators in the indictment—four attorneys, one “political consultant,” and one DOJ officials, presumably former acting assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark.

Much of the indictment focused on the pressure campaign against former Vice President Michael Pence and the so-called “fake electors” stunt tied to numerous Trump associates including Clark and Trump’s election attorney John Eastman—a description of one of the attorneys named as a co-conspirator appears to Eastman—the author of the controversial memo outlining how Pence could use an alternative slate of electors in contested states to replace Biden electors during the January 6 proceedings. Both men eventually could be named as co-defendants in a superseding indictment.

Fake elector certificates were sent to both Congress and to the archives in some instances. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel last month charged 16 constituents with various forgery charges “for their role in the alleged false electors scheme following the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” Nessel said in a press release. “These false documents were then transmitted to the United States Senate and National Archives in a coordinated effort to award the state’s electoral votes to the candidate of their choosing, in place of the candidates actually elected by the people of Michigan.”

The “fake electors” plan also is the subject of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ ongoing investigation into Trump’s allegedly unlawful attempts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results.

Keep reading the whole thing here….

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Analysis: The Trump DC Indictment

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Donald J. Trump has again been indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, this time relating to efforts to challenge the 2020 election. For the first time in American history, a former American president is being indicted for his conduct while in office. The political conduct of then-President Trump has been criminalized. And Special Counsel Smith prosecutes these political acts with novel, if not dubious, legal theories.

In total, Trump faces 4 counts: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States; Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding; Obstruction of, and Attempting to Obstruct, an Official Proceeding; and Conspiracy Against Civil Rights.  Read the indictment here

Special Counsel Smith goes to great lengths to unsuccessfully try to paint the indictment as not touching upon Trump’s right to speak publicly about the 2020 election or to contest the election results. Those efforts are unpersuasive for the reasons we’ll address below.

In total, Special Counsel Smith alleges Trump took part in “three criminal conspiracies”:

  1. A conspiracy to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government;
  2. A conspiracy to obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results are counted and certified (“the certification proceeding”); and
  3. A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.

Here are the alleged facts and statutory violations against Trump – which are each addressed with specificity…

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