WASHINGTON DC- The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, is summoned to appear this Thursday before a judge in Washington DC for the reading of charges after his indictment for his alleged attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 elections.
The ex-president is summoned to appear before magistrate Moxila Upadhyaya at 4:00 pm in the federal court of the District of Columbia, where the US capital is located.
As in the other two criminal cases he faces, Trump is not expected to be arrested and, as he has done previously, it is possible that he will plead not guilty to the charges against him, as he considers the processes that are underway. against him as “a witch hunt”.
At Thursday’s hearing, the judge will hear the arguments of the prosecutors and the defense, and could later establish the conditions for Trump to be released.
Upadhyaya, who was nominated at the time by former Democratic President Barack Obama, has brought several cases related to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In these types of appearances, the detainee’s fingerprints are usually taken and a mugshot is taken, but it is likely that this last step will not occur with Trump since in previous indictments no snapshot of this type has been taken.
In this case, Trump has been accused of four charges for his alleged attempt to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, which culminated in the assault on the Capitol by his supporters: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure , obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
One of them is for intentionally withholding national Defense information.
This criminal accusation is added to two others that the former president has faced in recent months.
One of them occurred in New York, where Trump has been charged with 34 charges for allegedly paying porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an arrangement in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign. for the trial to begin in March 2024.
The other is in Florida, where the former president has been charged with 40 counts of illegally stealing and keeping classified documents he took from the White House in his Mar-a-Lago mansion. Here the trial is scheduled to begin in May next year.
In the case now, in Washington DC, it is unknown when the trial could begin, despite the fact that special counsel Jack Smith announced on Tuesday that he wanted the process to be “quick”.
