The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s
Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
having a lot of success. considering that s happening and we haven t had a debate yet, he s going to be in real trouble as this progresses along. i think as was brought up, he s raised a lot of money off the first couple of dooindictments i think it s trickling down. the well is going to be dry. the fact that he s bill being his own supporters. he s only a billionaire. you can t expect more than that to ask everyone to pay your own way. no, i think it really is wearing thin here in new hampshire and iowa. i think the more and more folks look at where those discussions are hemmiappening, i think ther hope there. trump is not the nominee of this party. governor sununu, thanks very much for joining us. you bet. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and good evening and welcome to a special edition of out front. i m erin burnett and wolf blitzer. the third historic criminal donald j. trump.rmer president