Washington.- Strong security measures have been adopted around the Washington DC court where he is summoned at 4:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. GMT time) former president donald trump for the reading of the charges against him for his alleged attempt to reverse the result of the 2020 elections.
As EFE was able to verify, a security perimeter has been installed around the E. Barrett Prettyman court, seat of the federal court of the District of Columbia, which is handling the case of the ex-president. From the building you can see the Capitol, which is about 500 meters away.
Law enforcement have placed metal barriers to prevent people from approaching the building, where only employees and authorized people can access after passing two security arches.
A crowd of journalists, some with mobile units to transmit by satellite, are in the vicinity of the court outside the protection perimeter.
There is a strong presence of police patrols, agents with dogs, and trucks have been placed to prevent general traffic from entering the area, where there are onlookers taking pictures with their mobile phones.
A few supporters of the former president have approached the vicinity of the court. Three men, in a limousine with a license plate that reads “TRUMP DC” circle the building, honking their horns.
“Trump won the election,” shouts one of them, sitting in the front seat.
His partner, in the back, wears a mask with the face of the former president and assures that he came from New York to “be a witness to history.”
“I came to see it with my own eyes, instead of seeing it through the fake media. I hope that Trump rises in the polls today thanks to the impeachment, “he says, from inside the car, to the dozens of reporters who come to take photos of him.
The former president, Currently the favorite Republican candidate to run in the 2024 presidential elections, he is summoned to appear this Thursday at 4:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT) before Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in the District of Columbia court, where Washington is located, for the reading of the charges against him.
Trump is accused of four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official process, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official process and conspiracy against rights.
