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Then-Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows does not appear as one of the six unnamed co-conspirators … which will only add to Trump camp speculation that Meadows turned on him to provide evidence to the grand jury.
From the indictment: "The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, did knowingly combine conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to defraud the United States."
"The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those collected, counted, and certified."
Unnamed co-conspirators 1 and 2 appear to be Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.
The indictment cites "three criminal conspiracies," a "conspiracy to defraud the United States by using dishonestly, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government"; "a conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified"; and "a conspiracy against the right to vote and have one's vote counted."
The grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to nullify his 2020 presidential election loss has now indicted Trump on four counts., including Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.
Trump already faces multiple other indictments. Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June for hiding and lying to federal investigators about the existence of classified national security documents Trump moved to his Mar-a-Lago home and club after his election loss. The 40 criminal charges in the indictment detail evidence of Trump not only ordering documents to be moved so as to hide them from his own legal team, but ordering the destruction of security camera footage of the area the boxes were moved through.
In New York, Trump has been indicted for a criminal scheme of falsifying business records to hide payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal, part of Trump’s attempts to ensure Trump’s affairs with both women were kept hidden from the public during his 2016 presidential campaign.
