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Posted: 2023-08-02T00:34:39Z | Updated: 2023-08-02T00:39:42Z

Former President Donald Trump was aided by six co-conspirators in his plot to steal the 2020 election, according to his indictment by the Department of Justice filed on Tuesday.

Trump was indicted on four felony counts for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, culminating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The charges Trump faces include engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the government, a conspiracy to obstruct the Jan. 6 certification of electoral votes, and a conspiracy against the right to have ones vote counted.

The indictment does not name the six alleged co-conspirators, but their identities are revealed through details and information provided within. Below are the identities of the six people described as co-conspirators in the indictment:

Co-Conspirator 1: Rudy Giuliani

This person is listed as an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendants 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.

Aside from the description, the indictment provides additional information showing that Rudy Giuliani, Trumps lawyer and the former mayor of New York City, is Co-Conspirator 1. It states that Trump selected Co-Conspirator 1 on Nov. 14, 2020, to spearhead his efforts going forward to challenge the election results. Trump named Giuliani to lead these efforts on that date, according to news reports at the time.

The indictment also recounts a phone call that Trump and Co-Conspirator 1 made to then-Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on Nov. 22, 2020, to pressure him to help them steal the election. It also states that Co-Conspirator 1 met with Bowers on Dec. 1 of that year. Co-Conspirator 1 is quoted in the indictment telling Bowers, We dont have evidence, but we have lots of theories.

Bowers later recounted the pressure that Trump and Giuliani put on him in both the phone call and meeting.

In my recollection, he said, We have lots of theories, we just dont have the evidence, Bowers testified to the House Jan. 6 committee .

Co-Conspirator 2: John Eastman

The second alleged co-conspirator is an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice Presidents ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.