Before the start of the hearing, he denounces his treatment. Former US President Donald Trumpcampaigning to win back the White House, is summoned to federal court in Washington on Thursday to answer charges related to his “criminal” maneuvers to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
A few hours before this new historic criminal appearance, the Republican reproached his Democratic rival Joe Biden to be behind these new lawsuits. “Democrats don’t want to campaign against me, otherwise they wouldn’t resort to this unprecedented instrumentalization of justice,” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The 45-page indictment published on Tuesday, which notably mentions a “criminal project”, accuses him of having undermined the foundations of American democracy by attempting to alter the process of counting the results of the vote of more than 150 million Americans, unprecedented charges and all the more serious as he was then president in office.
A trial in the middle of the presidential campaign?
On the other hand, the two previous criminal proceedings brought against him this year, for accounting fraud linked to the purchase of the silence of an actress of X movies, and for having compromised national security by his casualness in the treatment of classified documents, relate respectively to the period preceding and following his term of office.
The court where all the charges will be served on him is near the Capitol, the seat of the American Congress, stormed by hundreds of his white-hot supporters to prevent the certification of the victory of his opponent Joe Biden, January 6, 2021. This assault was “encouraged by lies” about alleged election fraud in favor of Joe Biden made for months by the defendant, said, after the publication of the indictment, the special prosecutor Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation.
More than 24 hours before the start of the hearing, scheduled for Thursday, the cameras and satellite trucks of the national and international media were already deployed in the square in front of the court, in front of the objectives and under the curious eyes of passers-by and tourists. The prosecutor said on Tuesday that he wanted “a trial without delay” in this case. It is therefore possible that he will be held in the middle of the campaign for the presidential election of 2024. Donald Trump, 77, remains the big favorite in the primaries for the Republican Party.
2023-08-03 15:27:55
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