Washington, United States.
Members of the special prosecutor’s office in charge of investigating former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) formally informed his defense this Thursday that he will be charged, sources familiar with the case told US media.
According to NBC and the USA Today portal, Todd Blanche and John Lauro were Trump’s lawyers who met Thursday with prosecutors from the Washington office of special counsel Jack Smith.
The special counsel’s office has not provided information on the content of the meeting, but USA Today has described the meeting as a courtesy meeting before a grand jury votes to indict Trump for his role in the 2020 Capitol storming. .
It is not known when Trump could be formally charged, but journalists have been crowding around the federal court in Washington for days now, awaiting the outcome of this new judicial chapter.
Last week Trump himself posted a message on his social network, Truth Social, in which he assured that the Department of Justice had sent him a letter to notify him that he was being investigated for the assault on the Capitol, in which his supporters tried to annul the result of the 2020 elections.
That event claimed the lives of five people and put American democracy to the test, although Congress was able to end up certifying the victory of current President Joe Biden in the elections.
Trump is the first former president in US history to be indicted.
In New York, a grand jury indicted Trump for falsifying business documents in a case that includes porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom the former president had an “affair” in 2006.
Meanwhile, in Florida, Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges for taking boxes full of classified documents back to his Florida mansion when he left the White House in January 2021. EFE
2023-07-28 02:08:03
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