The following is a reading of the indictment of Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn

the 2020 election.

Parts of the text have been edited for clarity and ease of listening.

The recording was produced using an artificial voice generator in the United States District

Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America, V. Donald J. Trump, violations,

count one, conspiracy to defraud the United States, count two, conspiracy to obstruct an

official proceeding, count three, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding,

count four, conspiracy against rights, indictment, the grand jury charges that at all times material

to this indictment on or about the dates and at the approximate times stated below.

The defendant, Donald J. Trump, was the 45th president of the United States and a candidate

for re-election in 2020.

The defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, despite having lost, the defendant 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 repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims

appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and a road

public faith in the administration of the election.

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.

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