2023-08-29 02:19:52
The judicial calendar of the former American president thickens once again. Donald Trump will be tried from next March for his actions in the 2020 election, US authorities said on Monday. He is accused of trying to reverse the result. It is potentially the most serious of the trials that await him.
Donald Trump called this decision “election interference” in the 2024 presidential election. In a post on his Truth Social network, the former president, Republican primary candidate, accused the judge of “hating Trump” and announced that he would lodge an appeal.
This will be the first criminal trial for the frontrunner in the Republican primaries, who is also to be tried from the end of March 2024 in New York State for suspicious payments to a former porn actress, in May 2024 by a Florida court for his negligent handling of confidential documents after he left 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.
It was Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will preside over the proceedings, who ruled on this date on Monday. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith wanted Donald Trump’s trial in Washington to begin on January 2, 2024, a time too short for him to prepare, while the defense called for a distant deadline, in April, “well beyond of what is necessary”, according to the judge.
The assault on the Capitol in sight
This date is not hasty, added the magistrate, 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 Congress, by hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump white-hot to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
Donald Trump systematically attributes his legal hassles to the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden, whom he could find on his way in 2024 for a rematch of the 2020 election. real estate hammers its will that these trials be held after the election. The Republican billionaire on Monday accused President Biden of being responsible for his indictments without evidence, again calling the Democratic leader a “scumbag”.
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