2023-08-28 17:49:45
Donald Trump arrives to speak at the 2023 Lincoln Dinner hosted by the Republican Party at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa on July 28, 2023. SERGIO FLORES / AFP
Promised to a legal marathon in 2024, Donald Trump knows a new date, perhaps the most important: on March 4, 2024, his trial will open in Washington for his multiple attempts to reverse the result of the presidential election of 2020, potentially the most serious of the trials awaiting him.
He is notably prosecuted for “fraudulent conspiracy against the United States” (dissemination of false information on fraud and voting machines, pressure on justice and on the vice-president to encourage him to reject the votes in the states won by Joe Biden, designation of “false voters” in these states), “conspiracy to deprive voters of their right to vote”, “conspiracy to obstruct official process” and “obstruction of official process” (the certification of Joe Biden’s victory by Congress).
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan decided between the proposals of the two camps. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith had proposed that Donald Trump’s trial in federal court in Washington begin on January 2, 2024, saying he would “shouldn’t last more than four to six weeks”. This date “represents an appropriate balance between the right of the defendant to prepare his defense, and the strong public interest in a speedy trial” in such an emblematic case, argued Jack Smith.
The defense lawyers had suggested a much more distant date: in April 2026, well after the presidential election of November 2024. “The public interest lies in a fair and just trial, not in the haste of a judgment”they argued, citing the mass of documents to review.
First criminal trial for Trump
This date is not hasty, Judge Tanya Chutkan considered, stressing that the trial would open exactly three years, two months and six days after January 6, 2021. She was referring to the assault on the Capitol, seat of the Congress, by hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump white-hot to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
This will therefore be the first criminal trial for the favorite of the Republican primaries, who must also be tried from the end of March 2024 in New York State for suspicious payments to a former actress of X films, in May 2024 by a court in Florida (southeast) for his negligent management of confidential documents after his departure from the White House.
The date of his trial in a fourth case, that of electoral pressure in Georgia in 2020, indictment which earned him his mugshot last week, an already historic cliché for a former president, has not yet been announced. been fixed.
Donald Trump on Monday accused President Biden of being responsible for his indictments, again calling the Democratic leader a “scum”. The two men could once again be opposed during the presidential election of November 2024.
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