Donald Trump has been charged with four counts of trying to overturn the 2020 election in relation to the deadly January 6 riot, but he is still running for president
Former President Donald Trump has been charged with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election – but what happens next?
Following an investigation into the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump was hit with an indictment that claims the then-president allegedly tried to get election officials in seven states to “subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes.”
Trump is alleged to have been engaged in a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” by using “dishonesty, fraud and deceit.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith, in charge of the investigation into Trump, said: “The attack on our nation’s capital on January 6 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.