A Private Criminal Effort

The Special Prosecutor details how "candidate" Trump was not acting in his official capacity when he "used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process."

A federal judge unsealed a redacted 165-page legal brief establishing the criminal case against Donald Trump. "Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role.” The report establishes step-by-step that Trump's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election "was a private criminal effort."