Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at the Monument Leaders Rally hosted by the South Dakota Republican Party on Septemin Rapid City, South Dakota. “But the defendant disseminated them anyway – to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election,” the indictment reads. The indictment cites instances where Trump was informed that his claims were false by then-Vice President Mike Pence, the director of national intelligence, senior members of the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, his own staffers, state lawmakers as well as state and federal courts. Prosecutors put forward several examples of Trump being told by his aides that fraud claims he was promoting were false. In the indictment against Trump, prosecutors detailed the “prolific lies” Trump made in the wake of the 2020 election, including knowingly pushing false claims of voter fraud and voting machines switching votes despite state and federal officials telling him the claims were wrong. ![]() He added, “You know who I listen to? Myself. “I was listening to different people, and when I added it all up, the election was rigged,” Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker. The former president said he didn’t listen to his attorneys who told him he had lost the election because he didn’t respect them and that he “respected many others that said the election was rigged.” ![]() Andrew Harnik/APįact-checking Trump's 'Meet the Press' interview Former President Donald Trump at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC, on September 15.
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