“The attack on our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, whose office has spent months investigating Trump.
The Trump campaign called the charges “fake” and asked why it took two-and-a-half years to bring them.
But prosecutors obliquely referenced a half-dozen co-conspirators, including lawyers inside and outside of government who they said had worked with Trump to undo the election results.
The indictment centers on the turbulent two months after the November 2020 election in which Trump refused to accept his loss and spread lies that victory was stolen from him.
The indictment had been expected since Trump said in mid-July that the Justice Department had informed him he was a target of its investigation.
In New York, state prosecutors have charged Trump with falsifying business records about a hush money payoff to a porn actor before the 2016 election.
Prosecutors in Georgia are also investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to reverse his election loss to Biden there. »
