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Five key takeaways from Trump’s indictment over US election defeat

Former President Trump appears on classified document charges after a federal indictment at a US court in Miami, Florida, June 13, 2023 in a courtroom sketch [Jane Rosenberg/Reuters]

Former President Donald Trump has been hit with four federal counts related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the run-up to the United States Capitol riot by his supporters on January 6, 2021.

The 77-year-old Republican was accused on Tuesday of conspiring to defraud the US, obstructing an “official proceeding” (the certification of the vote), and denying US citizens the right to vote and having one’s vote counted. Trump dismissed the charges as “fake”.

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