From January 2017 until January 2021, applicant was the President of the United States. The indictme ...
From January 2017 until January 2021, applicant was the President of the United States. The indictment alleges that after 4 losing his campaign for re-election, applicant engaged in fraudulent conduct for the purpose of overturning the 2020 election and preventing the transfer of power. On August 1, 2023, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Columbia charged applicant in a four-count indictment. D. Ct. Doc. 1. Count One, which charges a conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, alleges that applicant, then a candidate seeking re-election to the presidency, conspired with, among others, several individuals outside the Executive Branch 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 results are collected, counted, and certified.” D. Ct. Doc. 1 ¶¶ 1, 7, 8. The indictment further alleges that applicant sought to accomplish the conspiracy’s objectives in five ways: using deceit toward state officials to subvert the legitimate election results in those States, id. ¶¶ 13-52; using deceit to organize fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted States and cause them to send false certificates to Congress, id. ¶¶ 53-69; leveraging the Department of Justice to use deceit to have state officials replace the legitimate electoral slate with electors who would cast their votes for applicant, id. ¶¶ 70-85; attempting to enlist the Vice President to fraudulently alter the election results during the certification proceeding on January 6, 2021, and directing supporters to the Capitol to obstruct the proceeding, 5 id. ¶¶ 86-105; and exploiting the violence and chaos that transpired at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, id. ¶¶ 106- 124. Counts Two and Three, which incorporate allegations from Count One, charge conspiracy and substantive violations of 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2) for corruptly obstructing the certification of the presidential election results on January 6, 2021. Id. ¶¶ 125- 128. Count Four, which likewise incorporates the allegations from Count One, alleges that applicant conspired to violate voters’ constitutional right to vote and have their votes counted, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 241. Id. ¶¶ 129-130.
