2023-09-01 04:17:29
The former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) pleaded not guilty this Thursday to the charges against him in Georgia for trying to manipulate the results of the 2020 elections, in which he lost by a narrow margin to the Democrat and current president, Joe Biden.
Trump, who is running for the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential elections, He has already pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal proceedings in which he is charged.
His lawyers filed this Thursday with the district court of Fulton (Georgia) a document in which the former president pleads not guilty to the 13 crimes charged against him and resigns “freely and voluntarily” to your right to be present at a formal arraignment in court.
The document, headed by the phrase in capital letters “President Trump’s Plead of Not Guilty and Waiver of Appearance at Arraignment”bears the former president’s signature at the end, as a sign that he agrees with what his lawyers wrote.
The reading of charges against Trump and the other 18 defendants in Georgia was scheduled for September 6 and was going to take place in a public hearing, that is, with the possibility of the press attending.
However, since Trump already pleaded not guilty this Thursday, he will not have to travel to Georgia to appear before the judge.
To indict Trump and 18 of his former allies, the Fulton district attorney, the Democrat Fani Willis, has used the RICO law, known for its use against members of the mob and used to guarantee that the leaders of a criminal association, and not only their subordinates, are accountable to justice.
The ex-president already went to Georgia a week ago to be registered and take his mugshot. He was in the Fulton County Jail for just 20 minutes and was released on $200,000 bail.
Trump is the first former president in the history of the United States who has been charged and has already accumulated four criminal cases.
In addition to Georgia, he faces legal proceedings in New York for irregular payments he made during the 2016 campaign to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels for an “affair” they had in the past.
Likewise, he faces justice in Florida for having taken classified papers to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021 and, finally, he must respond in Washington to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, in the that his supporters tried to disrupt the legislative process to certify Biden’s victory in 2020.
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