2023-08-21 11:52:00
While waiting for the day of the hearing, the defense which demanded time to study the mass of documents contained in the file relating to the plot that the former Republican president would have orchestrated once morest American institutions, the defense proposed another date. She wants this trial of the former president for his alleged fraudulent attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election to be held in April 2026, well following the November 2024 presidential election. “This date would allow them to prepare the just defense of their client, and not to interfere with the other lawsuits once morest the ex-president”plead his advice.
His lawyers protest once morest the request for a quick trial made by the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, whose investigation of several months is worth to the former president this new appearance. The prosecutor had notably wanted Donald Trump’s trial to begin on January 2, 2024. “The public interest rests in a fair and just trial, not in the haste of a judgment”, defended his advice in their proposed timetable, pointing out that the examination of the documents constituting the file alone might take several years.
Campaigning for the Republican primary to win back the White House in 2024, Donald Trump is the subject of four criminal charges: two at the federal level, in Washington and Florida (southeast), one in New York State and one in Georgia (southeast). He is accused not only of conspiracy once morest American institutions in connection with his actions to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election, but also of negligent management of confidential files and falsification of accounting documents following the purchase of the silence of an actress of X films. The dates of the trials have already been set for New York and Florida, respectively March and May 2024. The United States will then be in the middle of the electoral campaign for the primaries.
Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former vice-president, having already entered the race for the Republican primaries, judges that the maneuvers of his ex-boss to try to reverse the result of the presidential election of 2020 disqualified him for 2024. “President Trump was wrong then and he’s still wrong now”, he hammers from time to time. Mike Pence assures that he would comply with the law if he were summoned by justice to testify once morest Donald Trump at his trial.
Republican billionaire threatens witnesses
For the real estate mogul, likely candidate for the 2024 election, his legal troubles are none other than “the persecution of a political opponent”, and relentlessly sees a ” witch hunt “ at the instigation of his Democratic successor, Joe Biden. What justice does not want to hear regarding since it ensures that the Republican billionaire will have a fair trial. “I can assure everyone that there will be a process and a fair trial”had declared, on the day of the first hearing, the magistrate Moxila Upadhyaya.
Despite this, Donald Trump and his lawyers fear the court decision that will be pronounced, knowing that this is not the first time that Tanya Chutkan who will lead the debates will have to deal with Donald Trump. In 2021, following the departure of the latter from the White House, this judge had curtly rejected his request to keep secret certain information related to his actions on the day of the assault on the Capitol. “Presidents are not kings and the plaintiff is not president”, had launched in his decision the one who was appointed by Barack Obama in 2014, and who presided over the trials of many participants in the assault on the Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
In recent times, the standoff between the Republican tenor and the judicial authorities has hardened, with prosecutors denouncing a threatening post by the billionaire potentially targeting witnesses in the case, which Donald Trump has denied. Yet following his appearance in federal court in Washington, the White House candidate said: “If you look for me, you will find me! “.
The former Republican president remains a very strong favorite for the Republican nomination, the first debate of which is scheduled for Wednesday in Milwaukee, in the northeastern United States. He even widens the gap with number 2, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: in the New York Times / Siena College poll published in early August, Donald Trump is now ahead of him by 37 points. Despite this, his legal troubles might be a brake on his attempt to return to the White House.
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