Daily News | Trump indictment: Charges feature former president’s effort to subvert Pennsylvania election results
As a federal grand jury in Washington charged former President Donald Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States — his third set of criminal charges in less than a year — Pennsylvania featured early and often in the indictment.The four-count indictment charged Trump and six uncharged, unnamed coconspirators with a broad conspiracy to subvert the 2020 presidential election results in seven battleground states.· A Nov.
Trump’s deputy campaign manager responded: “We have been saying this for a while. It’s very frustrating,” the indictment said. The indictment does not name Trump’s alleged coconspirators, but one is identifiable as Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official whoThe charging document describes him as DOJ official who “worked on civil matters” and, along with Trump, “attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.
Clark, who graduated from Father Judge High School before getting advanced degrees from Harvard and Georgetown, spent most of his career practicing environmental law. Only in the aftermath of the 2020 election did he become a key Trump ally.Both Trump and Attorney General Merrick Garland were in Pennsylvania as the federal court in Washington unsealed the indictment against the former president.
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