FORMER President Donald Trump has been indicted again – this time over his involvement in the events of January 6, 2021.

Prosecutor Jack Smith delivered remarks after a sealed indictment was delivered to a Washington D.C.-based judge containing four felony counts against the former president.

Trump’s involvement and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have been investigated, resulting in the indictment which included four criminal counts against him.

Among the charges against him are conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights, and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

If found guilty of all four counts, Trump faces a maximum combined sentence of 55 years behind bars.

He is expected to be arraigned on Thursday in Washington D.C. district court in front of Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya.

The 45-page indictment also references six unnamed and unindicted co-conspirators.

“The Defendant and co-conspirators used knowingly false claims of election fraud to get state legislators and election officials to subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes for the Defendant’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to electoral votes for the Defendant,” the indictment stated.

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has been assigned to the case.

Trump shared the news of his third potential indictment on his Truth Social platform shortly before 5pm.

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“I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M,” Trump wrote.

“Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!”

Trump’s campaign has since released another statement on the platform.

“This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins,” the statement read in part.

Prosecutor Jack Smith has been leading the investigation into the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

Speaking to the press after the indictment was delivered, Smith said: “I encourage everyone to read it in full.”

“The attack on our nation’s capitol on January 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.”

He also hailed the first responders who defended the Capitol on January 6 as heroes.

“They are patriots and they are the very best of us,” Smith said.

“They put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people.

“Our investigation of other individuals continues,” Smith concluded.

Trump has denied his involvement in the day’s events, which left five people dead and others injured.

He revealed on July 18 that Smith sent him a letter “stating that I am a target of the January 6th grand jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and an indictment,” according to a Truth Social post.

The former president is currently facing federal charges in Florida stemming from his mishandling of classified docs after he left office.

Trump allegedly asked a staffer to delete camera footage at Mar-A-Lago following claims he illegally stashed hundreds of secret documents at the estate.

In June, Trump pled not guilty in Miami federal court to 37 felony counts against him.

He is set to face trial in May next year – just months before the 2024 presidential election.

The frontrunner for the GOP 2024 nomination could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if he’s found guilty of obstruction related to the security camera footage.

A spokesperson for the ex-president has branded the new charges as “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt” by the Biden administration “to harass President Trump and those around him” and to influence the 2024 presidential race.