Trump: The charges for conspiring to overturn the election
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The Times
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, for the third time in only a few months, former president Donald Trump was indicted, pleading 'not guilty' to four federal charges that argue he was part of a conspiracy that sought to defraud the United States and overturn the 2020 election. So what exactly is he accused of doing?
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| 0:30.0 | Good evening today an indictment was unsealed |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Tuesday afternoon special counsel Jack Smith a federal prosecutor in Washington DC stood behind a podium and |
| 0:51.0 | Did something now oddly quite routine? |
| 0:54.5 | He announced a criminal indictment of former US president Donald J Trump |
| 1:01.0 | Haven't we been here before yes twice before first in March this year there were state charges over the alleged falsifying of business records to cover up payments to a former porn star |
| 1:15.2 | The case centers on an alleged hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign |
| 1:24.4 | just weeks before the election |
| 1:27.0 | Second was June this year criminal charges over the retention and |
| 1:32.2 | Refusal to handle is the FBI classified documents |
| 1:35.7 | This makes him the first former US president in history to be indicted on federal charges in a post on truth |
| 1:42.9 | Social Trump said he had been indicted quote over what he called the boxes hoax |
| 1:48.0 | That is a reference to the boxes found at his Mara Lago estate by the FBI last August which contained |
| 1:55.0 | Classified materials |
| 1:57.2 | Which brings us to this week third time unlucky charging Donald J Trump |
| 2:03.1 | conspiring to defraud the United States |
| 2:07.0 | conspiring to disenfranchise voters |
| 2:09.7 | And conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding |
| 2:15.1 | The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th 2021 |
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