A special prosecutor accuses the former US president of 'prolific lies about election fraud'.
Former US President Donald Trump has been criminally charged over his alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The election investigation has focused on Mr Trump's actions in the two-month period between his loss and the riot in Washington DC, where supporters of his stormed Congress as lawmakers certified Democratic President Joe Biden's victory. About Mr Trump's allegations of voter fraud, prosecutors say: "These claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false."
The indictment also lists the numerous US officials and senior Trump campaign workers who, it says, informed the outgoing president that he had lost and that there was no evidence of voter fraud. Prosecutors in the state of Georgia are also investigating the former president on similar grounds, focusing on whether he illegally pressured officials there to discard Mr Biden's poll victory.In June, Mr Smith's team charged Mr Trump in a different case with mishandling classified documents. A trial on that indictment is due to begin in a federal court in May 2024 - months before the presidential election.
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