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Posted by: Paul Burch on Aug 1, 2023

Former President Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges in connection with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, AP reports. The four-count indictment alleges Trump conspired to defraud the U.S. by preventing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's victory and to deprive voters of their right to a fair election. In the 45-page court document, prosecutors allege a coordinated conspiracy across multiple states, in which Trump and his allies advanced claims of fraud they knew to be untrue but repeated them to "create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administration of the election." Trump was ordered to make an initial appearance in federal court on Thursday.