WASHINGTON. – Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday in a Justice Department investigation for his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, in the days before his supporters stormed the United States Capitol.
The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States government and witness tampering.
The indictment, marking the third criminal case against the former president as he seeks to return to the White House in 2024, follows a lengthy federal investigation into plans by Trump and his allies to subvert the peaceful transfer of power and maintain it. in office despite a decisive loss to Joe Biden.
A few hours before the indictment was released, the former president described special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation as “one of the largest witch hunts in history.” In a television ad airing on Fox News, he showed footage of prosecutors who have led investigations against him to accuse Biden of “unleashing a group of unscrupulous government bureaucrats, which he controls, to act like rabid wolves and attack to its greatest threat” (with a view to the 2024 elections).
electoral phenomenon
As mounting criminal investigations threaten his political ambitions, former President Donald Trump it has been able to hold out unscathed, and with one encouraging trend: it continues to do terrific in the polls.
On Monday, a Siena College and New York Times poll of likely primary voters showed Trump crushing Gov. Ron DeSantis by 37 points.
This is not an isolated case. The former president’s lead has risen from 16 points to 36 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average since he was indicted in Manhattan four months ago for allegedly falsifying business records, a charge brought by Democratic prosecutor Letitia James.
During that time, a jury in a civil trial found him guilty of “abuse and defamation” of a writer in New York, who alleges Trump abused her in a dressing room at a store where she worked in 1996. Trump was also charged. by the Joe Biden administration for another 38 federal crimes for his handling of classified documents and also for alleged obstruction of justice.
