Washington.- The former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) was charged this Tuesday with four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 election, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
According to a court brief, a Washington DC grand jury indicted him on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempted obstructing an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
In the indictment, which consists of 45 pages, it is recalled that Trump was the 45th president of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020, but lost the 2020 elections.
“The goal of the conspiracy was to reverse the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by knowingly using false fraud slogans to obstruct the federal government’s function of collecting, counting, and certifying the results,” the text reads.
Likewise, the grand jury accuses him of spreading “lies” that there was electoral fraud in 2020 that determined the result of the elections and that he had won: “These statements were false, the defendant knew they were false,” says the text.
The document also points out that Trump carried out alleged efforts to legally challenge the election result, which were unsuccessful, while also using “illegal” methods so that legally cast votes would not be counted to reverse the result of the election. The elections.
Therefore, according to the grand jury, The former president committed three crimes, which are the first three charges against him: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official procedure.
“The defendant repeated false claims of voter fraud, gave false hope that the vice president (Mike Pence) could change the outcome of the election, and directed a crowd in front of him to go to the Capitol,” the indictment states.
The indictment describes Trump’s efforts to reverse the election result from Election Day, November 3, 2020, until after January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol when Congress He was meeting to confirm Biden’s victory in the elections.
The grand jury that all these tricks were a means to obstruct the certification of Biden as president before Congress and a way of putting pressure on former Vice President of Trump, Mike Pence, who on January 6 acted as head of the Upper House to obstruct “fraudulently” the ratification of the Democrat.
