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Did Trump Engage in a ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ to Overturn the 2020 Election?
The House committee on Jan. 6 alleged in a court filing that former President Trump may have committed a crime in his effort to keep the 2020 presidential election results from being certified…
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The House committee on Jan. 6 alleged in a court filing that former President Trump may have committed a crime in his effort to keep the 2020 presidential election results from being certified.
The development came in the committee’s legal battle to compel documents from John Eastman, the lawyer charged with drafting the strategy for the Jan. 6 certification.
The panel said that Trump and Eastman had worked together to try to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College votes.
“Had this effort succeeded, the electoral count would have been obstructed, impeded, influenced, and (at the very least) delayed, all without any genuine legal justification and based on the false pretense that the election had been stolen. There is no genuine question that the President and Plaintiff attempted to accomplish this specific illegal result,” the committee wrote.
The committee also claims it “has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
Source: The Hill
