2023-09-14 21:13:17
WASHINGTON DC – A Georgia judge determined this Thursday that former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and 16 other defendants in the electoral manipulation case will not have to go to trial in October along with two other individuals who had requested a trial fast.
The decision represents a setback for the Prosecutor’s Office, which wanted the 19 defendants to be tried together, in an attempt to demonstrate that they were all part of a conspiracy to manipulate the results of the 2020 elections in that state, in which Trump lost by a landslide. a narrow margin once morest the Democrat and current president Joe Biden.
In a court document, Scott McAfee, one of the judges of the superior court of Fulton County (Georgia), determined that on October 23 the speedy trial that Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, two of the campaign’s lawyers, had requested will take place. Trump’s election in 2020 and accused of spreading false information regarding the elections.
Trump and the 16 other defendants had asked to be tried separately from Chesebro and Powell, arguing that they might not be ready for a trial on October 23.
The magistrate agreed to these requests and argued that his decision is simply “procedural” and addresses logistical reasons to make the procedures more manageable.
Trump, who is running for the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 presidential election, pleaded not guilty on August 31 to the 13 charges once morest him in Georgia.
21 people were saved from being charged in the election interference case.
Trump is the first former president in the history of the United States to be indicted and has already accumulated four criminal cases.
In addition to Georgia, he faces a judicial process in New York for the irregular payments he made during the 2016 campaign to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels for an “affair” they had in the past.
Likewise, he faces justice in Florida for having taken classified papers to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021 and, finally, he must respond in Washington to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, in which that his supporters attempted to disrupt the legislative process to certify Biden’s victory in 2020.
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