2023-09-06 20:28:15
Court proceedings in the middle of the election campaign
Trump faces four-month trial for attempted voter fraud in Georgia
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Former President Donald Trump approaches reporters before boarding his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges in Georgia in connection with attempted voter fraud.
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Former US President Donald Trump is accused of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. Prosecutors expect around 150 witnesses. In addition to Trump, 18 other suspects are involved in the process.
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Washington/Atlanta. In the case of attempted election fraud in the state of Georgia once morest ex-US President Donald Trump and 18 other suspects, the public prosecutor’s office expects a four-month trial. That’s what a prosecutor said on Wednesday at the first hearing in the Atlanta court, to which neither Trump nor the other defendants had to appear. That estimate of the schedule does not include jury selection, the prosecutor said. About 150 witnesses are expected in the court proceedings. The public prosecutor spoke out in favor of starting the process in October. However, the judge was very skeptical.
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The details of the procedure and a possible start of the process are still completely unclear. Several defendants are attempting to separate their case from the others, get a faster trial, or have their trial transferred to another court.
Trump has not admitted defeat in 2020 to this day
In Georgia, Trump is charged with 18 others over his attempts to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state. Trump lost the election to Democrat Joe Biden. To this day, he refuses to admit defeat. Instead, Trump claims he was deprived of a victory by massive voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere.
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In the midst of his new campaign for a Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 election, Trump faces three more indictments — and thus three more lawsuits. Among other things, he has also been charged at the federal level in Washington in connection with the 2020 election.
The ex-president’s mug shot
However, the procedure in Georgia differs from the rest of the procedures in New York, Miami and Washington. Cameras were allowed at the Atlanta hearing and the session was televised live. It is possible that this will also apply to the later process. In Georgia, Trump had also had to appear in a prison for the post-charge procedure to face the authorities – and not in court as in the other cases. At the prison date at the end of August, the authorities took a police photo of the Republican. Never before has an ex-president of the USA been immortalized on a so-called “mug shot”.
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