From New York Times, I'm Mike Obavaro. This is The Daily.

Today, an indictment was unsealed,

charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters,

and conspiring and attempting to obstruct him.

On Tuesday afternoon, special counsel Jack Smith filed criminal charges against former President

Donald Trump for his wide-ranging attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

Described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies,

lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government,

the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.

My colleague, Luke Broadwater, talks us through the historic indictment

and the evidence it lays out that Trump waged an illegal conspiracy to remain in power.

My office will seek a speedy trial so that our evidence can be tested in court and judged by jury of citizens.

It's Wednesday, August 2nd.

Luke, we are talking to you at 8.30pm or so on Tuesday nights.

It's been about three hours since Donald Trump was indicted.

And it's pretty strange to speak of indictments against a former president as routine.

But when it comes to Trump, they have become strangely routine.

This is number three in just the past few months.

Yeah, we've never seen anything like it in American history.

That's something we often say when we're talking about the Trump presidency or Donald Trump in general.

But yes, this is the third indictment of a former American president who is his party's leading candidate to run again for the White House.

And this indictment is probably the most consequential of them all, certainly in terms of the magnitude of the allegations.

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