Former President of the United States Donald Trump has been indicted for his attempts to alter the results of the 2020 elections, which he lost to Joe Biden, and which culminated in the assault of his followers on the United States Congress the day he was going to ratify the victory of his rival.
The charges against Trump are extremely serious, as the indictment alleges that “defendant spread lies” and made statements about Joe Biden’s alleged voter fraud “that he knew to be false.” He even cites moments in which Trump admitted to his own collaborators that he had lost the elections. Thus, on pages 30 and 31, he recounts how on January 3, 2020, Trump met with the head of the US General Staff, The general Mark Milley, the National Security Adviser, Robert O’Brien, and other senior officials, to discuss an international crisis that it is implied may have involved some form of military action by the United States.
At the meeting, Milley recommended that Trump not make any decisions, since there were less than three weeks left before the transfer of powers. “Yes, you’re right, it’s too late for us. Let’s leave that to the next one,” Trump responded. Three days later, the then-president was telling several thousand supporters who carried signs saying they were going to hang the vice president, Mike Pence, that “we’re going to Congress” to stop Biden from becoming president. All this is summarized in the second sentence of the accusation, which already makes the framework of the investigation very clear: “The defendant lost the 2020 presidential elections.”
In a brief public appearance, the special prosecutor in the case, Jack Smith, He recalled that even while his supporters were storming the Capitol, Trump continued to phone congressmen locked inside to ask them to block the ratification of the election results. Smith yesterday called for a speedy trial, and recalled that Trump is innocent “until proven otherwise.”
It is the third time in four months that Trump has been charged with a crime. On the two previous occasions, he was accused of violating electoral campaign regulations and for retaining more than a hundred documents, some of them containing state secrets, which he took after leaving the office. White House. It is likely that in the coming days he will be charged again, this time for the state of Georgia, for trying to steal the election there.