2023-08-01 23:44:18
New indictment against Donald Trump. The former US president has again been accused of criminal charges, for the third time in four months, this time for his efforts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election, in which he lost to the current president, Democrat Joe Biden. .
A grand jury in Washington DC indicted Trump this Tuesday on four new counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. Local media are advancing that the Republican tycoon must appear in court in Washington next Thursday.
Specifically, Trump faces one count of conspiracy “using dishonesty, fraud, and deception to obstruct the national process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election,” which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
He also faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying the election results and 10 years in prison for conspiring against the right to vote. Finally, the fourth charge carries a sentence of 20 years in prison for attempting to obstruct the certification of the ballots. The case has been assigned to District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama.
Trump’s other pending cases
Trump himself had anticipated that he would be charged this Tuesday and had charged special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is handling the case. “I have heard that the Deranged Jack Smith, to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election, will release another False Imputation of his favorite President, me, at 5:00 PM,” the former president wrote on his social network, Truth Social. “Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why have they waited so long? Because they wanted to do it in the middle of my campaign,” he charged.
After learning of the accusation, his campaign team has reacted through the same social network stating that “this is just another corrupt chapter in the pathetic attempt by the Biden criminal family and his puppet Department of Justice to interfere in the elections presidential elections of 2024”.
Smith, appointed as special prosecutor of the Department of Justice, is leading the investigation of Trump for his involvement in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and the classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago mansion. For that second cause, Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges for having taken boxes full of classified documents to his Florida mansion when he left the White House.
In addition, the former president was indicted last March in New York for the alleged illegal payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 electoral campaign in exchange for her silence about the extramarital relationship that both had years before, and another case is open. in Georgia about his efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in that southern state in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump, 77, lost the 2020 election to Biden but did not admit the result of the vote, denounced false voter fraud and pressured officials to reverse the result. However, he is currently the favorite candidate to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential elections and a new indictment would not prevent him from running in the elections.
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