Among the accusations contained in the 45-page indictment for the assault on the American Congress on January 6 two years ago there is also the one according to which «despite having lost», Donald Trump was «determined to remain in power. And so for more than two months after the elections of November 3, 2020, he spread lies” about the fact that the result of the vote was the result of fraud and that he “had won. False statements, which he knew were false" but which he "repeated and disseminated" to make them appear "legitimate and create an atmosphere of distrust and anger".

The allegations were made by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.

The former US president «had the right, like every American, to speak publicly about the elections and also falsely claim that they were determined by fraud. He was also authorized to request checks on the results through legal and appropriate methods - reads the second page of the indictment -. His efforts to change the result of the vote in each state by recount have not been successful.

Trump tried to convince his vice president "to use his ceremonial role for the certification of the vote, to alter the result of the election": when these attempts failed, he tried to "use the crowd of his supporters gathered in Washington to pressure on the vice president to fraudulently alter the election results,” the indictment continues on page 32. Trump is then accused of using the violence and chaos of the assault on Capitol Hill. "He repeatedly refused to approve a message directed to the rioters" asking them to leave the US Congress. Instead of proceeding as his collaborators asked, the tycoon "posted two tweets in which he did not ask the rioters to leave Capitol Hill but falsely suggested that the crowd was peaceful".

(Unioneonline/ss)