Former President Donald Trump has been informed he has been indicted by a federal grand jury regarding Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, ABC News reports.
There are four criminal charges against Trump in the 45-page indictment.
The indictment says Trump sought “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.”
The document also tells narratives of what Trump allegedly did in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to undermine elections there along with his attempt to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to illegally overturn the election.
There are also six co-conspirators who have not yet been identified — four attorneys, a Justice Department official and a political consultant.
Trump was summoned to appear in federal court on August 3 at 4 p.m. ET.
The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C. who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested.
Said Smith in a statement: “My office will seek a speedy trial.”
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