trump. prosecutor jack smith ends the document with the charge against the ex president. conspiracy against rights. quote, defendant donald j trump did knowingly combine, conspired, confederate and agree with coconspirators known or unknown to the grand jury to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the constitution and laws of the united states. that is the right to vote and have one's vote counted. donald trump is the first president to be charged with section 2:41. of the u.s. code, far from the first person charged with it. the second probably when mean much to anyone. what is the first series of reconstruction era acts known as the ku klux klan acts. it's one of the first charges brought under this law, over 100 years ago against two elections board officials in blaine county, oklahoma. the men were part of a three person board, and during the 1912 election, they engaged a conspiracy that, quote left out of their official canvas all of the votes from 11 precincts
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manhattan today, we learned that defendant donald j trump will not testify in his civil rape trial. that's significant development comes after e. jean carroll wrapped up a marathon of testimony, when she told the jury that trump raped her in a department store in the 1990s. today, on day five of the trial, the jury heard from lisa birnbach, a longtime friend of e. jean carroll, who testified that e. jean carroll called her just minutes after she said she was assaulted by donald trump. lisa birnbach he said that during the call e. jean carroll sounded breathless, hyper ventilating, emotional, and that carroll told her, he pulled down my tights. he pulled down by. tights lisa birnbach told the jury, i want the world to know that he was telling the -- carroll's lawyers also called jessica leeds to the stand. she said on trump assaulted her on a flight -- telling the jury, all of a sudden, trump decided to kiss me and broke me. he was grabbing my breasts. it's like he had 40 zillion hands.