Former President Donald Trump indicted for attempting to overturn 2020 election result

The US Attorney's Office will seek a "speedy trial"

The former president of the United States Donald Trump has been charged with four federal charges this Tuesday by a grand jury in Washington in the framework of the open investigation against him for trying to revoke the result of the 2020 elections, which gave victory to Joe Biden .

The accusation about the investigation led by special prosecutor Jack Smith has been presented shortly before sealed, as requested by the federal government, to prevent the defendant from fleeing from justice or knowing the penalties imposed on him, as reported by the CNN network.

Specifically, Trump faces one count of conspiracy "using dishonesty, fraud, and deception to obstruct the national process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election," which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

In addition, the former president faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying the results collected at the polls and a sentence of ten years in prison for conspiring against the right to vote.

Finally, the fourth charge carries a sentence of 20 years in prison for attempting to obstruct the certification of the ballots. The case has been assigned to US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, who is known for handing out the harshest sentences in the Capitol assault cases.

"This is just another corrupt chapter in the pathetic attempt by the Biden criminal family and his puppet Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 presidential election," his electoral campaign team reacted in a statement on the Truth social network. Social.

Federal prosecutors have assured in a statement collected by CNN that the former president "was determined to remain in power" after his defeat in the 2020 elections and that he spent more than two months "spreading lies about electoral fraud" knowing that said affirmations " They were fake."

In addition, they have added that false statements created "an intense atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and eroded public confidence in the administration of the elections."

The prosecution has claimed that Trump manipulated protesters into believing then-Vice President Mike Pence could change the election results, so they ended up "violently storming" the Capitol after Pence's denial was known.

THE PROSECUTOR SEEKS A QUICK TRIAL

Smith, for his part, declared at a press conference that the Prosecutor's Office will seek a speedy trial so that "the evidence can be proven in court and judged by a jury of citizens."

"The attack on our nation's capital (...) was an unprecedented attack on American democracy (...). It was fueled by lies, lies from the defendant, aimed at obstructing a fundamental function of the US Government: the process of collecting, counting and certifying the electoral results", added the special prosecutor.

POLITICAL REACTIONS

The president of the United States House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has assured that the Department of Justice is trying to distract the population from the "recent" news about Hunter Biden, son of the country's president, Joe Biden, who allegedly would have Received money from China.

Thus, McCarthy has denounced that the Justice Department gave him "broad secret immunity" and that the president himself spoke with Hunter's business partners more than 20 times, thus contradicting "his own statements."

"And just yesterday, a new poll showed that former President Trump is, without a doubt, Biden's main political opponent. Everyone in America could see what was coming next: the Justice Department's attempt to divert attention from the news and attack the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, former President Trump," McCarthy posted on the X social network, formerly known as Twitter.

"House Republicans will continue to uncover the truth about the Biden Administration and the two-tier system," he added.

Both the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and the leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives of the United States, Hakeem Jeffries, have described this third impeachment of Trump as "the most serious and with the most consequences to date." the moment".

The former president, who must appear in court next Thursday, was already charged in March in the framework of the investigation against him for the alleged payment of a bribe to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and also faces 40 charges in the classified documents case.