2023-08-07 05:54:16
The defense of former United States President Donald Trump (2017-2021) will ask to transfer the trial for his attempt to subvert the 2020 elections to a court outside Washington DC because he considers that Judge Tanya Chutkan is not impartial, the former president announced this Sunday .
“There is no way I can have a fair trial with the ‘assigned’ judge”said the Republican in a post on social networks in which he opined that the case in which he is accused is “ridiculous.”
“Everyone knows it and so does she! We will immediately request the dismissal of this judge for very powerful reasons and also change the venue, outside of DC”he added.
Trump also insulted the special prosecutor in the case againJack Smith, whom he called “deranged”and reiterated that the Justice Department is investigating him for being the main “opponent” of the president of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden, ahead of next year’s elections.
Trump appeared in federal court in the District of Columbia on Thursday, where he pleaded not guilty to the four counts he is charged with.with sentences of up to 20 years in prison, for having tried to reverse the 2020 elections in which he lost against Joe Biden and for having instigated the assault on the Capitol.
The prosecution accuses him of having deliberately lied when denouncing false electoral fraud and of having devised a plan to reverse the results of the elections that led to the assault on the Capitol in 2021when a mob of Trump supporters attacked Congress to prevent the ratification of Biden’s victory.
In an interview with CNN, John Lauro, the former president’s attorney, denied that Trump participated in a “conspiracy” against the elections and argued that all he did was “protest” the election results, something that is protected by the “freedom of expression”.
In addition, he rejected that the pressure that Trump exerted on his vice president, Mike Pence, so that hein his capacity as president of the Senate, will stop the ratification of Biden’s victory in Congress.
“What President Trump did not do was order Vice President Pence to do nothing. He asked for it in an aspirational way. Asking is protected by the First Amendment,” he argued.
Pence, since then estranged from Trump, has denounced on multiple occasions that the former president pressured him to bypass the Constitution.
This is the third criminal charge against the former president, also charged in New York for bribing the porn actress Stormy Daniels and in Miami for having illegally taken classified documents when leaving power.a case also investigated by prosecutor Jack Smith.
The legal proceedings against him, however, They have not diminished the popularity of Trump, a great favorite in the Republican primaries ahead of the 2024 elections, in which he aspires to fight Biden again.
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