2023-09-11 23:20:57
Former US President Donald Trump wants to have the judge responsible removed from his federal case in connection with attempted election fraud. Trump’s lawyers asked the Washington court on Monday (local time) to have Judge Tanya Chutkan dismiss the case. As justification, they cited several of Chutkan’s past statements and accused her of not being neutral.
Trump is facing federal charges in Washington in connection with attempted election fraud. It’s regarding his months-long campaign once morest his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, which culminated in the violent attack on the US Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021. The 77-year-old is accused, among other things, of conspiring once morest the United States.
In recent months, Chutkan had already led several cases once morest rioters who took part in the storming of the Capitol. She distinguished herself with particularly harsh judgments. In one of the proceedings, she stated that the rioters had acted “in blind loyalty to a person who, by the way, is still at large today.” This reference to Trump, among other things, bothers the Republican and his defenders. The meaning of this statement is clear: in Chutkan’s opinion, Trump is free, but should not be, they wrote in Monday’s motion.
The indictment accuses Trump of conspiring with six other people to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential election. Accordingly, Trump claimed, once morest his better judgment, that the election was fraudulent. He repeated this unsubstantiated accusation in order to provoke a mood of distrust and anger across the country and to undermine public confidence in the conduct of the election. Trump has rejected the allegations in connection with the storming of the Capitol. His campaign team drew parallels to events in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian states.
Trump’s move comes as no surprise. The ex-president and his lawyers are trying in various ways to prolong the various proceedings once morest him through legal motions. The Republican presidential candidate is facing a total of four different charges in the middle of the campaign for a possible second term.
In the field of opposition Republicans, Trump has so far the best chance of being nominated as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election. Chutkan set the start of Trump’s trial on March 4th. His lawyers had requested that the trial not begin until April 2026.
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