Judge Tanya Chutkan Postpones Trial Against Trump for Election Interference

MADRID, 2 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is investigating the federal case against former United States President Donald Trump for trying to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, has postponed this Friday the trial against the magnate, scheduled for March 5.

“The court will establish a new schedule when the mandate is returned (to the court),” he confirmed in a court order in the midst of the legal dispute that is being settled in the court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, which must decide whether Trump was protected in 2020 by presidential immunity, as reported by CNN.

The US Supreme Court refused to settle the issue at the end of December following a request by special prosecutor Jack Smith after Chutkan halted the case a week earlier. The judge already rejected a request from the former president in which she alleged that he had presidential immunity.

The magnate pleaded not guilty to four federal charges of conspiring against the United States; prevent Congress from certifying the results collected at the polls; conspire against the right to vote and obstruct the certification of the minutes.

Prosecutors argue that Trump manipulated protesters by making them believe that then-Vice President Mike Pence could change the results of the election, which ultimately led to the assault on the Capitol on January 6.

Trump also faces another trial, led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, for the case of electoral interference in the state of Georgia during the 2020 elections, for which he is accused of 13 state charges.

2024-02-03 05:11:21
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