Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted for the third time, with the latest relating to his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election result which lead to the deadly Capitol building riots.
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00:00 Today, an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud
00:07 the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct
00:14 an official proceeding.
00:17 The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here in the District of Columbia,
00:22 and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail.
00:26 I encourage everyone to read it in full.
00:30 The attack on our nation's capital on January 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the
00:38 seat of American democracy.
00:40 As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at
00:48 obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation's process of collecting,
00:53 counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.
00:57 Thank you.