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United States of America v. Donald J. Trump. This is an ongoing federal criminal case regarding Donald Trump's alleged participation in attempts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack.
Trump falsely claimed to have won the election, and made many false and unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. By December 11, 2020, 126 out of 196 Republican members of the House backed a lawsuit filed in the United States Supreme Court supported by nineteen Republican state attorneys general seeking to subvert the election and overturn the ...
- Background
- Criminal Investigations
- Role of The U.S. House Select Committee on January 6
- Role of The National Archives and Records Administration
- Related Investigations
On January 7, when asked at a press conference whether the speakers at the rally prior to the Capitol attack were being investigated for their remarks, Acting District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin stated "Yes, we are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building, but . . . were there others that maybe a...
By March 2022, the DOJ had seated several grand juries, including one regarding the fake electors scheme, to help prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against Trump's inner circle.One grand jury issued subpoenas to several Trump associates involved in the planning and financing of the president's "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the Capi...
Background
The House select committee on January 6 interviewed over 1,000 witnesses. While the committee's investigation was ongoing, it shared certain information with the Justice Department: for example, the committee's suspicion of witness tampering in Trump's placing of a phone call to a witness (witness tampering is punishable by up to 20 years in prison).The committee began releasing transcripts on its website on December 19, 2022.
Criminal referrals
On October 21, 2022, the committee subpoenaed Donald Trump for documents and testimony. Trump refused to comply, opening the possibility that the House could vote to hold him in contempt and the Justice Department could then charge him with criminal contempt of Congress. On November 11, his lawyers sued to block the subpoena. In their initial court filing, they characterized the committee's investigation as a "quasi-criminal inquest".On December 19, 2022, the committee criminally referred Tru...
In 2022, the Justice Department subpoenaed NARAtwice, seeking documents about January 6. On September 30, 2022, after the House Committee on Oversight and Reform had requested Trump administration records, NARA responded: "we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should." NARA, acknowledging DOJ's "ongoing investigation", did not pub...
On December 22, 2022, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance told MSNBC that other investigations (apart from the January 6 investigation) might proceed relatively quickly. She said: "The Georgia district attorney is wrapping up her proceedings. The Mar-a-Lago documents situation ― where Trump took classified materials with him ― is extremely serious, an...
- More votes than registered voters. President Trump has repeated unproven claims that battleground states have recorded more votes than registered voters - it's a rumour that has been circulating in various forms since the election.
- Unexplained surges in Democrat votes. There've been a number of allegations from President Trump and others about votes for his rival, Joe Biden, suddenly appearing in large numbers during the counting process.
- Votes flipped from Trump to Biden. President Trump's legal team also repeated a claim made by him that there had been an issue with the voting system used in some battleground states which supposedly allowed millions of votes to be flipped from him to his rival, Mr Biden.
- The voting machines are owned by Democrats. President Trump has said the "Radical Left owned Dominion Voting Systems" with his legal team pointing to ties with Bill and Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians.
Jul 14, 2021 · By Robert Farley. Posted on July 14, 2021. Former President Donald Trump says a former U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania was forbidden by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate voter...
Feb 8, 2021 · Apr. 7, 2020: Attacking the election. Trump made one of his first false claims about the security of mail-in ballots. "Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, because they're...
Nov 20, 2020 · Since Election Day, PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 80 misleading or false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Federal agencies, state election officials and technology...
