Trump Can Be Indicted Under Federal, State and DC Laws for His Role in Jan. 6 President Trump looks on during a rally in support of Republican incumbent Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of a Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images By The legal evidence is damning: Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for “seditious conspiracy” and “inciting insurrection” for his role in stoking the events of January 6, when an angry mob of Trump loyalists, incited by the president himself, stormed the Capitol building to stop the congressional counting of votes for Joe Biden in the Electoral College.