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Washington, D.C. Trump Federal 2020 Election Subversion Indictment

United States v. Trump

Indictment of former President Donald Trump by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. Trump was indicted on four counts relating to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“ [F]or more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant [Donald Trump] 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 that they were false,” the indictment reads. 

According to the unsealed indictment, Trump is charged with:

  1. Conspiracy to defraud the United States;
  2. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding;
  3. Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and
  4. Conspiracy against the right to vote and have one’s vote counted.

On Aug. 3, 2023, Trump pleaded not guilty as his arraignment in Washington, D.C.

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