Former U.S. president, Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the third time in four months that he has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year.
According to Reuters, the four-count, 45-page indictment charges Republican Trump with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by preventing Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and to deprive voters of their right to a fair election.
Then President Trump pushed fraud claims he knew to be untrue, pressured state and federal officials – including Vice President Mike Pence – to alter the results and finally incited a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in a desperate attempt to undermine American democracy and cling to power, prosecutors said.
