Donald Trump has been indicted for the third time in four months, this time for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election and the deadly attack on the US Capitol building.
The insurgency left several people dead, about 150 police officers injured, and a nation shocked and divided. The indictment also said Trump had six co-conspirators, but it did not name them.Trump has been summoned to appear in court on August 3, and in brief remarks after the indictment, Smith said his office would seek a speedy trial.
In a statement issued after the indictment was handed down in court, a Trump spokesperson likened the matter to “Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,” calling them “un-American”. “It’s going to keep on going,” Trump’s former ambassador Nikki Haley said in a recent interview on Fox News last month.
The latest indictment adds to a growing number of court cases Trump will have to manage as he campaigns for the Republican primaries, which begin in Iowa on January 15 next year, followed by the November 2024 presidential election if wins the GOP nomination to run against Joe Biden.mishandling of classified documents
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice shows documents seized during the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.As part of the new charges, the former president is also accused of retaining a classified document detailing a military plan of attack on Iran, which he showed to a writer, publisher and two staff members at his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey in July 2021.paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with him in 2016.
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