Special counsel Jack Smith unveiled his case alleging that former President Donald Trump broke several laws in his attempts to overturn the election . Trump faces four counts accused of conspiring to defraud the United States and to obstruct an official proceeding the latter a charge that has already successfully been brought against rioters who breached the Capitol . Trump is accused of knowingly spreading prolific lies of fraud in the wake of the election including knowingly pushing false claims of voter fraud and voting machines switching votes the indictment says . Trump has derided Smiths case as a politically motivated fake indictment and has been summoned to appear before a magistrate judge on Thursday . The indictment alleges that Trump and his coconspirators effectively tricked individuals from seven targeted states into creating and submitting certificates asserting they were legitimate electors . The goal was to create a fake controversy at the certification proceeding in those states on December and position the Vice President to supplant Trumps with fake electors . In one anecdote captured in the indictment Trump allegedly acknowledged that he would be departing the Inauguration was only days away from taking a certain national security action because the Inaguration was just days away . Trump said he would not be leaving the White House on January 14th but said he was going to give up his resignation as President of the . Inaggressions to take a shift from the . November 14th to January 15th and to take up a shift to take down a shift with Trumps. The indictment also alleges that he did not give up a change to change a change in a shift in a new position. Inagreement to take place in a move that would be a change of a change that would not change a new role in the state. Trump said to have changed a new post. In the indictment. In
Takeaways from the indictment of Donald Trump for efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat .
