2023-08-31 22:07:30
Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to attempting to illegally overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to a court document filed Thursday.
This is the fourth criminal case in which the real estate magnate, favorite in the Republican primaries to take over the White House from his 2020 opponent, current President Joe Biden, has been prosecuted.
A date for his trial in this case has not yet been set. But in another document presented by his lawyer, he officially requested the dissociation from his file of several of the 18 other defendants who opted for a “rapid trial”, scheduled from October, demanding more time to prepare his defense. .
Crying at “electoral interference”, the real estate mogul insists on his desire for these trials to be held following the presidential election, scheduled for November 2024.
Summoned on September 6 for his public impeachment in Georgia, Donald Trump, like several other defendants have already done, indicated in the court document that he waived his right to appear before the judge and should therefore not move once more. in Atlanta, capital of the state of Georgia.
He had to appear in person last week in an Atlanta prison for the time to be stuck there and to submit to a mug shot, a first for a former American president.
Already three trials in three months
Mr. Trump and 18 others, including his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, were charged on August 14 with unlawful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election in this key state, won by Joe Biden.
The law on organized crime used by the prosecutor in this case provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.
The septuagenarian is also accused in New York of suspicious payments to a former porn actress, and by federal justice of electoral pressure during the 2020 presidential election as well as negligent management of confidential documents following his departure from the White House. .
The former president has pleaded not guilty in all of these cases. He systematically attributes his legal setbacks to the government of Joe Biden, also a candidate for his own re-election.
On Monday, Trump protested once morest the decision of the judge of his trial in federal court in Washington to set the opening for March 4, 2024, the eve of Super Tuesday, one of the most important deadlines of the Republican primaries.
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