Washington Special counsel Jack Smith said Tuesday that the January attack on the US Capitol was fueled by lies told by former President Donald Trump . Indictment asserts that Trump knew as early as that his narrative was false and had been told as such by numerous senior officials in his administration and allies outside the federal government but persisted in deploying it anyway including on January itself . The indictment alleges that Trump and his alleged coconspirators organized the phony slates of electors and then caused the slates to be transmitted to Vice President Mike Pence and other government officials to try to get them counted on January the day Congress met to count the electoral votes . The list is illustrative nonetheless highlighting the breadth of electionrelated topics Trump was dishonest about the large number of states his election dishonesty spanned and critically his willingness to persist in privately and publicly making dishonest assertions even after they had been debunked to him . Here is the list of those lies one by one . The lie that fake proTrump Electoral College electors in seven states were legitimate electors. The indictment also notes that Republican Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey had told Trump in an Oval Office meeting on November that Trump had lost because of fraud but said he had lost the election but had told him that he had underperformed certain voter populations with certain voter population populations . The charge also says that Trump did not have the power to act . Trump also said that he did not want to act. The charge is also said to have told him to say that he would not have to act in November that he was not told that he wanted to act again. The president had not told the president. The . indictment also said in an indictment that Trump. had not been told that Trump’s . The president’
21 Donald Trump election lies listed in his new indictment . 21 of the lies listed are
