Department of Justice mentions were removed.
The special counsel’s new indictment charging former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election made changes large and small to accommodate the Supreme Court’s landmarkAn indictment that once offered vivid details of Trump’s effort to enlist federal officials in his scheme to overturn the election removed any mention of the Department of Justice.
Later that day, Trump allegedly resisted former House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s plea to call off rioters. The superseding indictment appears to have streamlined its account of Trump’s behavior while omitting the statements once included in the original indictment. The indictment originally detailed how Trump allegedly worked with co-conspirator four – identified by ABC News as former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark – to have the Department of Justice send a letter to key states falsely claiming that the Justice Department "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election.
The indictment still mentions Vice President Pence’s contemporaneous notes of a key meeting with Trump about the proposed plan to reject legitimate electors on Jan. 6.The new indictment only makes slight changes to the section referencing the notes, cutting a line that the "White House Counsel previously had pushed back on the Defendant's false claims of election fraud."
New Indictment: In his Campaign speech on January 6, the Defendant publicly repeated the knowingly false claim that 36,000 non-citizens had voted in Arizona. The indictment originally detailed three instances in December 2020 when officials, including the acting attorney general and chief of staff, told Trump that his claims of fraud in Georgia – including at the Cobb County Civic Center and State Farm Arena – were false. The new indictment omits those details.
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