2023-08-06 17:51:44
(Washington) Former United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he wanted to “recuse” the judge who is to oversee his future trial in Washington for having tried to reverse the results of the November 2020 presidential election and favored the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Posted at 1:51 p.m.
“I can in no way get a fair trial with the judge ‘assigned’ to this ridiculous free speech and fair election case,” Trump thundered, as usual in block letters, on his social network Truth Social.
“Everyone knows it, including her. We will immediately ask that this judge be challenged, on very solid grounds, and likewise [demander] moving [du procès] out of [Washington] DC,” the former president added of Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan and the US Federal Capital Court.
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La juge Tanya S. Chutkan
Magistrate Chutkan is to preside over the case that earns Donald Trump his third (and most serious) criminal indictment, and she is known for harshly condemning supporters of the former president who participated in the assault on the Capitol.
She was randomly assigned to oversee this landmark court case involving the ex-president, indicted on August 1 on conspiracy against the state in connection with his attempts to reverse the November 2020 election result.
The former American head of state came to Washington on August 3 to plead not guilty to the four charges against him. On August 28, he should know the date of his trial, the special prosecutor Jack Smith who investigated wishing to see the case judged “without delay”.
Mr. Trump, favorite in the Republican Party primaries for the November 2024 presidential election, has also been indicted by federal justice for his alleged negligent handling of confidential White House documents. He is also being sued by New York State justice in a case of alleged accounting fraud related to payments to buy the silence of a former pornographic film actress.
Trials are to be held in March and May 2024.
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