2023-08-29 07:40:18
The former US president’s team Donald Trump He affirmed this Monday that the date chosen by the judge to begin the trial against him for trying to annul the 2020 elections deprives him of the right to have a fair trial.
“Today’s set date deprives President Trump of his constitutional right to a fair trial, a fundamental principle of America, and continues to expose the corruption and witch hunt that is being launched,” a spokesman for the Trump administration said in a statement. Ex leader.
US judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who will judge the case that culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, reported this Monday that the chosen date is March 4, one day before Super Tuesday.
This date is the closest thing in the United States to a national primary, since more than a dozen states, both Republican and Democratic, will simultaneously hold internal processes to choose their candidates.
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In a message through his Truth Social social network, Trump reported that he is going to appeal the judge’s decision and insisted again that the Joe Biden government is carrying out a “witch hunt” against him.
With his decision, Chutkan overruled special counsel Jack Smith’s desire for the trial to begin in January 2024, around the anniversary of the Capitol storming.
Also the interest of the defense of the former president to postpone the process until after the next presidential elections, which will be held in November 2024 and in which Trump is still the favorite Republican candidate. They had requested that the trial begin in April 2026.
In her speech on Monday, the judge stated that she was not going to allow Trump’s political agenda – which has four open criminal proceedings – to dictate the trial schedule.
“If this case involved a professional athlete, for example, it would be inappropriate to set a trial date based on her game schedule,” Chutkan said, adding that Trump’s proposed schedule went far beyond what was necessary to prepare the case. .
The former president is charged in Washington DC with four 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.
For the first of these charges, he could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison, for the second and third twenty years in prison, respectively, and for the fourth, ten years.
This Monday’s announcement came a few minutes after it became known that the indictment against the former president and 18 other defendants in Georgia for trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in that state will take place on September 6.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal cases in which he is also charged: for irregular payments to actress Stormy Daniels to hush up their past relationship during the 2016 campaign, for illegally taking classified papers from the White House by abandoning power and by the assault on the Capitol.
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The former president went to Georgia last Thursday to be registered and have his mugshot taken. He was in the Fulton County Jail for just 20 minutes and was released on $200,000 bail.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, the Democrat Fani Willis, proposed that same day to the court that the trial start on October 23 and not on March 4 of next year, as she had originally proposed.
The start of the process against Trump for irregular payments to actress Stormy Daniels is set for March 25, 2024 in New York.
Meanwhile, the trial in Florida for the classified papers is scheduled for May 20, 2024, with just over six months to go until the presidential election..
(With information from EFE)
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