Prosecutors resubmit charges that Trump tried to overturn election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : The new indictment comes three days before Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against Trump, and lawyers for the former president had been scheduled to file a schedule for pre-trial proceedings.
29% : It retains the same core, stating that Trump lost in 2020 but "was determined to remain in power" and attempted to subvert the results.
29% : Trump also faces charges in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
29% : Trump was also charged in Florida with mishandling top-secret documents after leaving the White House.
26% : The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version but takes into account a recent Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
25% : "Trump was convicted in New York in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
21% : Trump referred to the new indictment as an "act of desperation" that was part of a "witch hunt" against him.
20% : Trump is also accused of seeking to disenfranchise US voters with his campaign of false claims that he won the 2020 election.
19% : The new indictment drops references to Jeffrey Clark, a former senior Justice Department official who was one of six co-conspirators listed in the original indictment allegedly enlisted by Trump to press his false claims of election fraud.
10% : Trump is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding -- the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress that was attacked by Trump supporters.

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