2023-08-03 22:29:16
Donald Trump disclaims responsibility for theassault on the Capitol. For the third time since the beginning of the year, the former president of the United States appeared in court this Thursday to answer the imputation which places him in the center of a conspiracy to try to subvert democracy and “reverse the legitimate results of the presidential elections of 2020″ after being defeated at the polls by Joe Bidenaccording to the indictment.
At 4:00 p.m. on Thursday (10:00 p.m. in Spain), Trump assured federal judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya that he declares “not guilty», the English version ofinnocent. As in the two other criminal cases he is facing, Trump has not been arrested or photographed, only his fingerprints have been taken and he has been asked about his position on the charges filed on fiscal especial Jack Smith.
This Tuesday, Smith formally accused the Republican tycoon of conspiracy to defraud the USA, conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings, obstruction of justice and conspiracy against rights. His actions and “illegal” methods they will lead to the violent insurrection of his supporters against the Capitol, an assault on democratic institutions that resulted in five fatalities and that has widened the gap in an already fractured country.
In the vicinity of the court, acolytes of the conservative leader have gathered to protest against a trial that places the nation before a unique moment in its history. A few hours earlier, Trump was haranguing his from his social network, Truth Social: «If these illegal persecutions succeed, if they are allowed to set fire to the law, then it will not stop with me. His siege will close even more around YOU.’ Aware of the situation, the authorities have shielded Washington in one of the most intense security operations ever deployed in a federal court, according to administration officials quoted in ‘The New York Times’.
Problems with justice
The imputation throws the US into a scenario as dizzying as it is uncertain. Trump is the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination for the elections to be held in November next year. Winning these elections would be the way to seal his longed-for revenge against Biden and the democrats.
However, this path can be truncated by the multitude ofjudicial investigations pointing to the former president. The most serious is the recent imputation for trying to manipulate the electoral results in 2020 “knowingly using false slogans of a frau» in the ballot boxes that never existed, but it is not the only one. In June, go be charged with 37 federal charges for improperly retaining government documents after leaving the White House and to try to block the investigation. In March, he became the first ex-president accused of criminal charges to pay $130,000 to silence porn actress before 2016 presidential election Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with him. then he also denied his guilt.
Trump still other legal problems. Fulton, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis is expected to announce new charges on September 1 related to the former president’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election. The sheriff in the area has already said that the candidate for the nomination republican will not receive any special treatment.
What will happen now?
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Again, Trump has put the US in a unique situation. Despite the lack of precedent, American law contemplates that someone charged and even convicted can run in the presidential elections. This is the goal of the tycoon, clear favorite to get the nomination of a party, the Republican, which continues to control with an iron fist. Statements like those of the former vice president Mike Pencewho has accused his former superior of putting himself “above the Constitution” and described his lawyers as “guilty”, remain an anomaly.
The succession of scandals and imputations could be worth very little for a large bag of voters convinced that everything is a “witch hunt”. In January 2016, the then candidate assured that “I could shoot someone and still not lose a single vote”. Now, he hopes the multitude of lawsuits he faces will turn him into a martyr. one CNN poll released Thursday shows 69% of Republicans still believe Biden’s 2020 victory was illegitimate. The voters will have the final verdict and Trump knows it: “I need one more imputation to secure my election.”
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