FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  

August 3, 2023 

Former President Indicted for Inciting Attack on U.S. Capitol and Democracy 

 

WASHINGTON—On the evening of August 1, 2023, a federal court indicted former President Donald J. Trump on four charges, including Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Conspiracy Against Rights, after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 

Government Accountability Project and its Democracy Protection Initiative work to protect democracy by providing expert legal and advocacy counsel to whistleblowers and witnesses who disclose serious abuses of public trust, including threats to free and fair elections, offering legal protection and ensuring their disclosures make a difference. We applaud the Department of Justice for using the rule of law to hold accountable those who seek to undermine the foundation of our democracy. We believe no citizen, regardless of their political or socioeconomic status, should be above the law. 

Government Accountability Project Senior Counsel and Director of the Democracy Protection Initiative, Dana Gold, commented,  

“Government Accountability Project knows that whistleblowers and witnesses from both parties have been crucial to this investigation to expose the truth about the conspiracy, fueled by false information, to undermine the 2020 election results. We also recognize the real risks whistleblowers and witnesses face by speaking truthfully about wrongdoing—especially when those leveraging disinformation to perpetrate wrongdoing use threats and actual violence to serve their nefarious ends. This indictment sends a message that truth, and truth-tellers, are essential to promoting accountability and enforcing the rule of law. Government Accountability Project remains committed to protecting whistleblowers who protect our democracy by challenging and exposing abuses of power.”  

 

 

Contact: Andrew Harman, Government Accountability Project Communications Director  

Email: [email protected]  

Government Accountability Project    

Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, Government Accountability Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. 

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