Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. He has been indicted in three cases and is under investigation in one other — all while leading the Republican field in the 2024 presidential race. He denied wrongdoing in each case.
Federal Jan. 6 election casethe Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.says Trump took part in three criminal conspiracies designed to subvert the 2020 vote. It accuses him of spreading claims about voter fraud that he knew to be false, then pressuring local, state and federal officials to block Joe Biden’s victory.
The charges in the indictment are among the most serious that can be brought against a former U.S. president. The indictment accuses Trump of seeking to sabotage the peaceful transfer of power, a bedrock of American democracy.Jack Smith, the prosecutor leading the case, was tapped in November to handle the investigation. Investigators looked into the Trump campaign’s attempts to raise money off false claims of election fraud and plans for “fake electors” that could deliver the election to Trump.
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