Faces four-count federal indictment for Jan. 6 election subversion

A Washington, D.C. grand jury charged Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct the Jan. 6 electoral vote count, obstruction, and conspiracy against voters’ rights, making explicit that he used knowingly false claims to pressure states, the Justice Department, and Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 result. The 45-page indictment spells out that, despite losing, he assembled co-conspirators to target “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 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." — United States v. Donald J. Trump, filed Aug. 1, 2023