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TRUMP v. UNITED STATES 

Opinion of the Court 

votes for [Trump’s] opponent, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to elec-
toral votes for [Trump].”  App. 185, Indictment ¶10(a).  Sec-
ond, Trump and his co-conspirators “organized fraudulent 
slates  of  electors  in  seven  targeted  states”  and  “caused 
these fraudulent electors to transmit their false certificates 
to the Vice President and other government officials to be 
counted at the certification proceeding on January 6.”  Id., 
at  186,  ¶10(b).    Third,  Trump  and  his  co-conspirators  at-
tempted  to  use  the  Justice  Department  “to  conduct  sham 
election crime investigations and to send a letter to the tar-
geted  states  that  falsely  claimed  that  the  Justice  Depart-
ment had identified significant concerns that may have im-
pacted  the  election  outcome.” 
Id.,  at  186–187,  ¶10(c).
Fourth,  Trump  and  his  co-conspirators  attempted  to  per-
suade “the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the 
January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently alter the
election results.”  Id., at 187, ¶10(d).  And when that failed, 
on  the  morning  of  January  6,  they  “repeated  knowingly 
false claims of election fraud to gathered supporters, falsely 
told them that the Vice President had the authority to and 
might  alter  the  election  results,  and  directed  them  to  the 
Capitol  to  obstruct  the  certification  proceeding.”    Ibid. 
Fifth, when “a large and angry crowd . . . violently attacked
the Capitol and halted the proceeding,” Trump and his co-
conspirators “exploited the disruption by redoubling efforts 
to levy false claims of election fraud and convince Members
of Congress to further delay the certification.”  Id., at 187– 
188, ¶10(e).

Based  on  this  alleged  conduct,  the  indictment  charged
Trump with (1) conspiracy to defraud the United States in 
violation of 18 U. S. C. §371, (2) conspiracy to obstruct an
official proceeding in violation of §1512(k), (3) obstruction
of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding in violation