Based on the evidence so far, a potential indictment could take multiple forms. | ANALYSIS by North America correspondent FarrahTomazin capitolriots
that his bid to overturn his defeat was unlawful.
Trump continued to pressure his then vice president Mike Pence to stop Joe Biden’s election victory from being certified by Congress on January 6.As White House press aide, Sarah Matthews, told the committee, the tweet “poured gasoline on the fire”. But Trump could potentially argue that he genuinely believed election was rigged – despite the evidence showing everyone from his attorney general Bill Barr, to his daughter Ivanka Trump and his campaign manager Bill Stepien, didn’t agree with the theory.
But charging Trump for seditious conspiracy would require prosecutors to prove that he acted intentionally or knowingly to conspire with other parties to inflict violence to change the election results. In the absence of a written agreement or some other smoking gun, the challenge would be convincing a grand jury of his culpability or state of mind.
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