Indictment stated Trump ignored advisers who told him election was not fraudulent and helped organize fake slates of electors to try to capture electoral votes in states he had lost.
The four-count, 45-page indictment charges Trump with conspiring to defraud US by preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory and hindering fair election.
Leading up to the election, Chris Krebs used Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's website to debunk Donald Trump's claims about widespread election fraud.
As recently as Saturday, Trump had tweeted ‘we will WIN!’, railed against recounts in Georgia & pushed debunked theories about voting-machine irregularities.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin had earlier declined to congratulate Biden, saying the election's outcome must be determined by the US' laws and procedures.
After 4 years of angry division & 5 days of breath-held anxiety, celebrations erupted in Democratic strongholds in the US, even as Trump’s supporters continued to protest the result.
US President-elect Joe Biden's remarks are significant as outgoing President Donald Trump was accused of not listening to health experts on how to combat the pandemic, allowing it to spread across the US.
Despite losing to Joe Biden, Donald Trump continues to exert a tight hold on Republican voters, adding risk to any member of the party who extends an olive branch to the Democratic winner.
Refusing to concede defeat in the Presidential election, Donald Trump says in a statement Saturday legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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