Donald J. Trump has been indicted by the grand jury convened by special counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump and his allies' attempts to overturn the 2020 election.- Trump has been charged with four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States "by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election"; conspiracy to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding; a conspiracy against the right to vote and to have that vote counted; and obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct and impede, the certification of the electoral vote.
- Members of the grand jury met at the courthouse earlier today.
- Trump announced July 18 that he received a letter from special counsel Jack Smith notifying him he was the target of a grand jury examining the Jan. 6 riot and the 2020 election.
- A new indictement was filed last week in a separate special counsel investigation of Trump involving his alleged mishandling of classified records.
- That indictment brought more charges against the former president and a top aide and added a newly charged defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago who helped move boxes of classified documents.
From the editor: Trump is, of course, to be viewed as innocent until proven guilty.
But, if convicted on these charges, that he tried to overturn an election fraudulently, willfully, we will be wondering how America could elect such a person.
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