2023-08-03 23:52:39
Time.news – Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to four counts of his attempt to subvert the 2020 election results.
“This is a very sad day for America” and “a persecution of a political opponent”. The former president spoke briefly to reporters on the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Soon after, he re-boarded his private plane to the golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Trump added that “it was also very sad driving through Washington DC and seeing the dirt and decay and all the broken buildings and walls and graffiti. This – he added – is not the place that I left. It is a very sad thing to see and is not what should happen in America”.
Shortly earlier, in a federal courtroom in Washington DC, the former president had pleaded not guilty to trying to overturn the results of his electoral defeat in 2020, ranswering for the first time before a judge on charges of orchestrating the attempt (later failed) to block the peaceful transfer of power from him to Joe Biden.
The judge, Moxila Upadhyaya, agreed to release him, after setting the conditions for his release, and set the next hearing for August 28th. And it will be a complicated August for the former president who, three days earlier, on August 25, is called to appear in Florida, in another of the trials against him, the one for the transfer of secret documents to Mar-a-Lago .
‘I need another charge to win the election’
Trump has challenged prosecutors to file another charge against him that would guarantee him – he says – victory in the next presidential elections. “I need another charge to secure my election!”he wrote on Truth Social.
Trump – who has just left, aboard an SUV, from his home in Bedminster, New Jersey, to go to the airport where he will fly to Washington DC – really risks a fourth indictment for trying to overturn the electoral result in Georgia. Upon his arrival in the capital, he is expected in court where he was summoned after being indicted for alleged attempts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election vote.
An email to supporters
Former US president Donald Trump told his supporters in a fundraising email that he could face up to 561 years in prison after the Justice Department (DoJ) indicted him for efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“With the corrupt Doj of Crooked Joe once again illegally indicting yours truly, reports indicate I now could face a total of 561 years in prison on leftist witch hunts,” Trump writes. in the email posted by The Hill.
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Capitol Hill Facts Commission and Trump’s Role
So far there are 1060 defendants in the assault on Capitol Hill
Thirty months later the uprising of January 6, 2021 which led thousands of Trumpian supporters to besiege Congress, record numbers remain those linked to the investigation that led to the indictment, among others, of former US president Donald Trump. According to data provided by the Justice Department, 1,060 people have been indicted so far, including 350 for assaulting the police.
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Guns aimed at Capitol Hill
They were that day 140 representatives of the police forces victims of the violence. The assault lasted almost five hours, from 12.53 to 17.40. The dead during the insurrection there were five: Army veteran Ashli Babbitt was killed by Capitol Hill security as she was attempting to break down a door to reach the senators. Of the other four, one died of an overdose and three of natural causes.
Four police officers were on duty that day and committed suicide in the seven months following the assault. Damage to the Congress House totaled $2.9 million. Each of the convicts also had to pay two thousand dollars to compensate for the damage caused to the building.
Police evict protesters on Capitol Hill
More than three hundred people were indicted for obstructing the democratic process of certifying votes, one of the most serious crimes together with that of seditious conspiracy, a charge contested against those considered to be the leaders of the insurrection, including the leaders of the white supremacists and neo-Nazis, from the Proud Boys to the Oath Keepers. More than 700 people have been sentenced so far, and of these 560 have received the full amount of the sentence.
About 350 were locked up in prison. According to the Washington Post database, the average sentence is more than three years in prison: those who admitted their responsibilities received, on average, a sentence of two years and four months in prison. Who didn’t, four years and eight months.
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