The former U.S. president faces four federal criminal charges in his third criminal indictment in four months
In the federal election case, Mr. Trump is accused of colluding with six associates, including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, to have state legislatures, Congress, the Department of Justice and then-vice president Mike Pence throw out Joe Biden’s election victory.
Through it all, Mr. Trump repeatedly made baseless claims that the Democrats had rigged the voting. Mr. Smith charges that Mr. Trump knew there had been no election fraud but ran a deliberate disinformation campaign and knowingly lied to his supporters.Mr. Trump’s lawyers have, so far, advanced the defence that Mr. Trump’s efforts to cling to power were a legal exercise of his right to freedom of expression because he sincerely believed Mr. Biden had won via voter fraud.
Mr. Smith has vowed a “speedy” trial but Mr. Trump’s lawyers have signalled he will try to delay until after the election and seek to move the proceedings outside of Washington, whose citizens are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. Mr. Pence, who previously went to court to try to avoid having to co-operate with Mr. Smith’s investigation, was one of the few members of Mr. Trump’s party to push back against him. He said this week that Mr. Trump and his “crackpot lawyers” had demanded Mr. Pence violate the constitution to change the election result.
Judge Chutkan has also handed down tough sentences for Jan. 6 rioters, of whom about 300 have pleaded guilty and 100 been convicted at trial of various offences related to storming the Capitol.
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