Desperate Democrats lay charges against Trump. Here they are.

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Joe Biden doesn’t seem to be able to let go of his hatred for Donald Trump. His Department of Justice again indicted Mr. Trump after the USSC tossed the last one.

Mr. Biden’s special counsel Jack Smith, has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump with most of the same federal criminal charges with refined allegations that seek to dodge  Supreme Court opinion about charging former U.S. presidents.

The revised case against Mr. Trump was presented to a new grand jury.

In the new 36-page superseding indictment of former president Donald Trump, Mr. Trump is charged as a private citizen, likely because of the Supreme Court’s Ruling of immunity for a U. S. President.

Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United
States.
Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k), Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official
Proceeding.
Count 3: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.
Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 241, Conspiracy Against Rights.

See: Trump-Indictment-gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.226.0

“Despite having lost, the Defendant–who was also the incumbent President—was determined to remain in power. So, for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant 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. But the Defendant used his Campaign to repeat and widely disseminate them anyway 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.

“As a candidate and a citizen, the Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts, audits, or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful.

See: Trump-Indictment-gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.226.0

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The U.S. government accuses Mr. Trump of pursuing unlawful methods to discount legitimate votes and subvert the election results shortly after Election Day. In doing so, the defendant is alleged to have engaged in three criminal conspiracies which they say are as follows.

“A conspiracy to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.

“A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified (“the certification proceeding”), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k); and

“A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241.”

“Each of these conspiracies-which built on the widespread mistrust the Defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud-targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election (‘the federal government function’).”

 

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