There are 5 things to know about the charges against Donald Trump

The case against Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential insurrection: A case against a conspiracies that could have been perpetrated maliciously

At last. The criminal justice system is going to fight back against one of the most damaging and dishonest conspiracies in the history of the United States. Tuesday’s indictment of Donald Trump, brought by the special counsel Jack Smith’s office, is the culmination of a comprehensive effort to bring justice to those who attempted to overthrow the results of an American presidential election.

Trump was indicted again for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and this time on four counts. The charges include conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

In the weeks after the 2020 election, the legal system was in a defensive crouch, repelling an onslaught of patently frivolous claims designed to reverse the election results. In the months and years since the violent insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, the legal system has switched from defense to offense. The men and women who entered the Capitol were first charged by prosecutors. The organizers of the Trumpist right-wing militias, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, were pursued by prosecutors.

Yet Trump refused to acknowledge what even his own top advisers were telling him at the time: There was no evidence of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the election.

In the weeks following the election, Trump’s campaign pursued dozens of lawsuits in states where Trump lost. Courts repeatedly rejected the Trump team’s election fraud claims.

He continued to make up stories and raise money off of them. Between Election Day and January 6, there were $250 million raised by Trump.

Trump, leaning on legal theories proposed by outside attorney John Eastman, wanted Pence to refuse to count certain Electoral College votes — a theory that Pence rejected as unconstitutional.

Eastman is currently fighting to retain his law license. In June the State Bar of California opened a case against him, accusing him of pushing false voter fraud allegations during the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, Trump advisers were pursuing a fake-elector scheme, pushing Republican officials in states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia to put forward an alternate slate of electors even though Biden had won those states.

But as Congress was meeting on Capitol Hill, Trump was hosting a rally down by the White House. In a long, rambling speech, he repeated his claims of election fraud and told the crowd to “fight like hell” and march to Congress.

The peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. was threatened by Donald Trump’s supporters storming the Capitol and injuring scores of law enforcement officers.

One of the largest investigations in the department’s history was launched to find those who broke into the Capitol and hold them accountable. So far, more than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Tuesday’s unsealed indictment lays out a case against Trump and those around him as he scrambled to try to hold on to power even after losing the 2020 presidential election by 74 votes in the Electoral College and more than 7 million in the popular vote.

Tuesday’s development is the latest in a series of legal troubles that are likely to loom over next year’s presidential election. He is the front-runner for the Republican nomination. He faces federal charges for allegedly obstructing an investigation into classified documents at his Florida resort.

According to court documents, a grand jury indicted Donald Trump on Tuesday on four counts relating to the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The Justice of Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, D.C., is Charged with January 6, 2020 Election Interference

The AP wrote that Chutkan, a former public defender nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, has taken the toughest line against January 6 defendants of any judge on Washington’s federal trial court.

According to The Associated Press, Chutkan stood out for her tough punishment for Jan. 6 rioters. The AP found at least seven instances where Chutkan imposed harsher fines than federal prosecutors sought for the rioters.

In this case, the judge in Washington, DC. has many years of experience, so Trump is also facing that judge. The case has been assigned to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.

Investigations into election interference are ongoing elsewhere, as well. Georgia’s attorney general will soon announce her long-awaited charging decisions in the investigation into the attempt by Trump and his associates to overturn the 2020 election there.

The widespread nature of this case is compared to the case brought in New York and Florida, where at least six co-conspirators are listed as part of the alleged conspiracy.

The Civil Rights era was when this charge was used to prosecute those who intimidated Black voters.

After the Civil War it was passed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups from harassing and even murdering Black people in the South.

A White House Report on the January 6, 2001 Attack on the U.S. Capitol: Donald Trump’s Campaign Against a Scenarios of Fraud and Corrupt Crimes

The Justice Department’s lengthy and complex investigation into the events of January 6, 2001 are not being involved in any of these investigations.

A special prosecutor is looking into the case and has charged DePerno with possession of a voting machine, willfully damaging a voting machine and conspiracy.

And it works. In the month of March, before the first indictment, Trump had just 43% of the GOP vote according to the RealClearPolitics average. His number shot up to 50% a day after he was charged in the hush-money scheme.

That’s because, after two impeachments, three indictments and quite a few scandals in between, Trump has conditioned his supporters to see each allegation against him as a reason to rally around him.

In an interview with All Things Considered, Franco Ordoez, NPR White House correspondent pointed out that the attacks from Trump and his supporters are focused on the process, not the substance.

And their descriptions line up with that of people who could be of interest to investigators, such as former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell, and former DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark.

Some attorneys promoted election fraud claims. An attorney privately acknowledged that the election fraud claims were crazy. Another, co-conspirator 4, was a Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and “attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures.”

This indictment only charges Trump, the only other person in this case is also charged. The court document has some information on who else might face charges in the future.

“The attack on our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021, was an assault on the seat of American democracy,” said the special counsel in a short statement before reporters. “As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. The defense lied to obstruct a bedrock function of the U.S. government.

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Trump’s 3rd indictment, U.S. loses AAA rating; heat and the brain: a source for information coming from the Lacks family

The leading Republican candidates will be in court on Thursday, and Trump is still the leader. If he pleads not guilty, we will be hearing about his trial as he makes his case for the White House.

On a lush, wild island not far from the front lines of the war in Ukraine, a family maintains the traditions of warriors called Zaporizhzhian Cossacks by training people to fight with swords, maces and bare hands. The 17th-century warriors are revered in Ukrainian for their belief in self-governance. Their history can be heard through photos of their facilities and traditional weapons.

If you get a brain fart, blame it on the heat. Studies have shown that higher temp can affect our cognitive performance in several ways, from making us less productive to slowing down reaction times.

The Lacks family made a settlement with the company they said used Lacks’ cells without her consent. Lacks was being treated for cancer in the 1950s when Johns Hopkins University doctors took cells from a tumor without her knowledge. The cells were involved in the development of COVID-19 vaccine, for example. Her descendants say she and other Black women were never compensated for their genetic material.

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The First Five Years of the Federal Government: How Things Changed after the Fugitive Decree to a Better Standard of Government Governance

The rating of the federal government was lowered to AA+ by the credit watchdogs, who said there was a “steady deterioration in standards of governance.” The move comes two months after Washington narrowly avoided a potentially disastrous federal debt default.

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