Washington. Former President Donald Trump, the clear favorite for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential elections, appears this Thursday before a court in Washington accused of conspiring to change the result of the 2020 elections.
In a 45-page text released Tuesday, special counsel Jack Smith accuses him of undermining the foundations of American democracy by attempting to tamper with the vote count in the presidential elections, an unprecedented and especially serious charge given that he was president at the time. exercise.
On the contrary, the other two criminal indictments handed down against him this year, one for accounting fraud due to the payment of money to a porn actress to buy her silence and another for having endangered national security with the negligent handling of confidential documents, correspond to to a period before and after his term.
Trump, 77, is expected to plead not guilty at a hearing at 4:00 p.m. local time before Investigating Judge Moxila Upadhyaya. They will take your fingerprints, but you will not be photographed. The case will later go to federal judge Tanya Chutkan, who already ruled against him in a case in 2021.
The court where the charges will be read is near the Capitol, the seat of the United States Congress, which was stormed by hundreds of his supporters on January 6, 2021 in their effort to prevent the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe from being certified. Biden.
The assault was “encouraged by the lies” that the defendant told for months about the alleged electoral fraud in favor of Joe Biden, Smith said after making the indictment public.
The authorities have deployed strong security measures around the court, outside which journalists from all over the world camped overnight to ensure a place inside from which to tell this historic moment.
