Against the Fake Elections of Jan. 6, 2021: The Case of Donald Trump and his Activists in the U.S. Capitol
Thousands of people supporting Trump did that. They marched from the Ellipse to the Capitol, where they fought through police lines, stormed the Capitol and sent lawmakers fleeing for safety.
The investigation of the events of Jan. 6, 2021 is a large one and is being done by the Justice Department.
The investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, which is being conducted by the Department of Justice, is one of the most complex investigations in US history.
The special prosecutor investigating the case said DePerno had been charged with possession of a voting machine, willfully damaging a voting machine and conspiracy.
The attack on the U.S. Capitol in January was an effort by Donald Trump’s supporters to overturn the 2020 election results.
And it works. In March, several weeks before the first indictment, Trump had just 43% of the vote in Republican polling, according to a RealClearPolitics average. But a day after he was charged in a hush-money scheme to an adult film actress, his numbers had jumped to 50%.
After a number of scandals and impeachments, Trump has conditioned his supporters to see the allegations against him as a reason to rally around him.
“They claim these are politically motivated charges. The special counsel was attacked by them. Ordoez stated that they don’t necessarily refute specific allegations. They don’t argue that Trump encouraged those people who attacked the Capitol. They never say that Trump didn’t seek a group of fake electors.”
But as NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez pointed out in an interview with All Things Considered, the attacks from Trump and his supporters are focusing on the process — not so much the substance.
There are many people who are of interest to investigators, such as former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Easton and Sidney Powell, and former DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark.
Some are attorneys who helped promote bogus election fraud claims. A co-conspirator 3 is said to be an attorney who 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.”
Trump is the only person who is accused in the latest indictment. But the court document scatters some clues for the future in terms of who else might potentially face charges.
The former president was indicted in March and June on 34 counts of lying about their business records and 37 counts of mishandling classified documents. Trump has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
Trump is still leading the Republican primary race despite being summoned to court on Thursday. We could be hearing about his case for the White House when he pleads not guilty, as he has done before with other indictments.
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The Justice Department immediately launched a nationwide investigation — one of the largest in the department’s history — to track down those who broke into the Capitol and hold them accountable. More than 1,100 people have been arrested as a result of the attack.
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.
Republicans in states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia were told by Trump advisers to put forward alternate electors even though Biden had won those states.
His law license is being fought for. The State Bar of California opened a case against him in June and has argued that Eastman knowingly and willfully pushed false allegations of voter fraud during the 2020 election.
Pence rejected the idea that the Electoral College votes were unconstitutional because he was swayed by legal theories proposed by John Eastman.
On Thursday, Trump entered his plea in a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse, where he’s accused of orchestrating a violent conspiracy.
Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Trump, testified before the grand jury investigating willful retention of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after prosecutors successfully pierced attorney-client privilege. Trump was indicted on 40 counts in that case.
Judge Upadhyaya said the most important condition of release is not committing any new crimes while on release, which could lead to him being detained and could add to the sentence he may eventually face. It is illegal to try to bribe or retaliate against anyone connected to the case, she told Trump. Trump said he understands.
The magistrate judge has set the first hearing for Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. ET, and at that time U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has been assigned the case, will set a trial date.
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This wasn’t supposed to happen in America. This is the persecution of the person that’s leading by very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you have to either persecute him or prosecute him. We can’t let this happen in America,” Trump said in brief remarks at the airport before departing after the hearing.
Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the results began on election night, when he took to the stage at his campaign headquarters and claimed that he was the rightful winner and that the election was being stolen through fraud.
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.
Instead, he continued to push his false claims of fraud and raise money off them. According to the House, Trump raised $250 million during the last two weeks of the year.