Trump Charged With 4 Criminal Counts Over Alleged Role In January 6 Riot

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with four criminal counts over his alleged role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, court documents revealed.

"Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following Election Day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false," the indictment said on Tuesday.

Trump is charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, one count of obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and one count of conspiracy against rights.

Court documents also showed that there are six co-conspirators in this case.

Trump's new indictment comes amid a number of other probes into potential misconduct by Trump, including on his alleged mishandling of classified documents, as well as in the middle of the 2024 presidential race, in which he has established himself as the Republican Party's leading candidate.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is running against Trump in the Republican Primary, took the opportunity to remind voters that he was the one that "chose the Constitution" when pressed by Trump during the riot.