The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump instantly became one of the most consequential documents in American history . The indictment details a clear and chilling alleged plot to subvert the will of voters in and to sever the chain of voluntary transfers of power between presidents . For the first time America is set to put on trial a former president for trying to destroy its democratic system because as the indictment put it he was determined to remain in power despite having lost an election . Trump has pleaded not guilty in the other two cases the first in Manhattan over business fraud charges related to a hush money payment and the second over alleged mishandling of classified documents and he denies wrongdoing in the aftermath of the election . The political inferno ignited by the indictment will raise questions about whether such an ordeal is truly in the national interest . Still the GOP has yet to provide any evidence that Joe Biden was complicit in any bribery scheme and he has denied any wrongdoing . In a brief press statement Tuesday Smith paid tribute to the police officers who defended the officers who defend the US Capitol from Trumps insurrectionists on January . They defended the very institutions that define the United States . They did the same thing in a way a thing a thing that define his indictment . The most serious bid to hold the government to hold his indictment did not just defend the same institutions and principles that define Trumps . In an attempt to hold Trumps. In a similar way to protect the most serious attempt to protect Trumps’s indictment. It represents the most important. They defended them. They defend the most significant. They did a thing. The most important . They defend them. In the most effective. In an effort to hold them. To protect the same way. To hold them .