The US Justice investigates Trump for civil rights conspiracy for the assault on the Capitol

Prosecutors claim to have evidence to charge Trump with three counts for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election

MADRID, 20 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The letter that former United States President Donald Trump received this week from special counsel Jack Smith informing that he is being investigated for his attempts to annul the 2020 elections indicates that the country's Justice has evidence to accuse the former president of three crimes, including conspiracy to violate civil rights.

According to sources with knowledge of the document consulted by CBS, they point out that the letter includes "conspiracy to defraud the United States, deprivation of rights under the law (when someone uses power to deny constitutional rights), and witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding".

The second of these charges concerns section 241 of the United States Code, which provides under "civil rights conspiracy" that it is unlawful to conspire to threaten or intimidate any person in the "free exercise" of any right or privilege under the Constitution or the laws of the United States."

The inclusion of the investigation of these alleged crimes in the letter does not necessarily mean that Trump is charged with these crimes or that the prosecution is limited to these three statutes.

Trump assured this Tuesday that he had received a letter from special counsel Jack Smith in which he informed him that the Justice Department was investigating him for his involvement in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. As he indicated, the US Justice had evidence that he had committed a crime in the post-electoral period, when the Republicans strove to annul the result of the elections.

According to Trump's statement, the letter urges him to inform the US Justice about that episode within four days, and he has defended his "right to protest" for the results of an election that he considers to be "rigged and stolen."

Trump already has a federal indictment open for having stored classified documents in his private mansion in Mar-a-Lago (Florida). A court in Manhattan (New York) also accuses him of bribing adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels.

The former president confirmed in November last year that he would run in the Republican primaries, where according to polls he would win and represent the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential elections. The country's president, Joe Biden, will aspire to re-election.