2023-08-03 21:30:00
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The former president of the United States rejected the accusations after an investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith. It is the third accusation that he faces in four months
04 ago 2023 . Updated at 00:09 h.
Donald Trump He left by helicopter on January 20, 2021, leaving behind a city shocked by the worst insurrection in its history and returned this Thursday by private plane to face the courts for those crimes that inspired the revolt on January 6 of that year. The capital of the United States awaited his return with tense calm and a strong security device, in anticipation that his followers wanted to accompany him back to the scene of the crime, but it was not like that. they are afraid to comeexplained Dion Cini, obsessed with the lack of masculinity he sees in his country and fascinated with that of Trump.
Special counsel Jack Smith didn’t give them much time to prepare. On Wednesday afternoon, an hour after the Grand Jury returned its verdict, he made public the four charges of which he is accused and scheduled his appearance in court, located just two blocks from the Capitol, in what he hopes will be an expedited trial. Trump, on the contrary, will try to extend it until after the 2024 elections so that it is the town that acquits him at the polls and gives him the power to pardon himself as the new president.
This Thursday there was also some poetic justice in taking its toll where the echo of the cries of Lynch to Mike Pence still resounds!, who involuntarily became a key witness in the process. This is the third imputation that the president has faced in four months, but the one that reaches the deepest to the hearts of the Americans and the furthest in the penal code. It is no longer about altering accounting books to hide payments to a porn actress, like in New York. Not for hiding hundreds of classified documents that he took from the White House, obstructing the FBI’s attempts to recover them, but for conspiring to alter the outcome of the elections with lies that on January 6 inflamed his most violent followers, cost their lives. five people and injured 140 policemen. Trump, unsurprisingly, pleaded not guilty of the four charges that the magistrate read to him during his appearance. Specifically, the tycoon is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure, conspiracy against the civil rights of voters and obstruction and attempted obstruction of the electoral process.
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The president landed an hour earlier in his private plane at the Ronald Reagan airport, coming from his golf course in Bedminster (New Jersey), where he spends the summer. He knew that this time he would not have much of an audience. They are afraid of the FBI, that is why they are not here, Cini had concluded. He, who considers himself a very man and a great patriot, was there on January 6, 2021 and put up his flags again this Thursday for the only man he sees willing to change the country. Insurrection? Naa, it’s an insurrection when the police escort you out of the Capitol. I am from New York, from the land of Trump, and I have seen much worse things there.Like throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.
Among the few brave people who gathered in front of the general courts was Nicky Sundt, a 68-year-old transsexual who was also on this stage on January 6, 2021, but with a very different collection of the facts from what this member does. from MAGA (Make America Great Again, Trump’s slogan). She carried banners much like yesterday’s, Save Our Democracy. Trump supporters surrounded her, vandalizing her banners, insulting and threatening her for 45 minutes.. I did not answer them, at no time did I enter the rag. I just stood there watching, until I heard shots. She was rescued from possible lynching by a Trump-supporting priest who, despite having joined the protesters, took pity on her and escorted her out of the perimeter.
This Thursday he overcame the trauma to witness the moment in which history settles accounts with the man who inspired those events that have marked his life. The first day I dressed fully as a woman, as I am now, was for the million woman march (in protest of Trump’s inauguration). I thought it was worth coming out of the closet for. My friends supported me a lot. This time it was she who told them that you can’t fight fascism from your seat, but Nicki was alone again with her banners, in the median of Constitución Avenue in front of the Capitol.
He did not see Trump. He entered the underground garage in his limousine with smoked windows through a back door. This time the process was much faster, because the federal files already have the former president’s fingerprints from June, when they were taken in Miami, where 37 charges were read against him related to the classified documents that he took to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago on January 20.
Total 40 federal charges
The Prosecutor’s Office later added three other criminal charges. Added to the four that were read to him this Thursday, there are a total of 40 federal charges, in addition to another 34 for which he is being tried in the state of New York related to the accounting fraud with which he tried to hide the payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. , to buy his silence in the middle of the final stretch of the electoral campaign.
I am not going to Washington to be arrested for having challenged stolen, corrupt and rigged elections, the president wrote to his followers shortly before boarding the plane, ready to become a martyr. It is a great honor, because I will be arrested for you. Let’s make America great again! The strategy of using his legal problems to inflame his supporters seems to work for Trump. Before he announced his first indictment in mid-March, he barely enjoyed media attention and his poll numbers lacked the momentum of now, completely unmarked from his closest rival by 37 points behind in the latest newspaper poll. New York Times. I am one accusation away from securing the elections, boasted the controversial ex-president in his Truth Social network. His wish may soon come true in Atlanta, Georgia, where a grand jury is considering indicting him for trying to steal the state elections. It is, presumably, the last case that he has open, the one that will force his lawyers to defend him in four different jurisdictions. New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg has already indicated his willingness to cede the March date set for that trial to the Washington prosecutor for justice.
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