Washington.- The former president of the United States. donald trump (2017-2021) arrived this Thursday at the headquarters of the federal court of the District of Columbia for the reading of charges after being charged for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 elections.
The 77-year-old former president arrived at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, the seat of the court and very close to the US Capitol, at around 3:14 p.m. local time (7:14 p.m. GMT), amid great expectation media coverage and a strong police presence, according to EFE.
Since entering the building, Trump is technically under court order to appear before Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, who will read him the four charges against him: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
For the first of these accusations, he could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison, for the second and third twenty years in prison, respectively, and for the fourth, ten years.
It is foreseeable that Trump will plead not guilty, as he did in the two previous criminal charges he has received.
In recent months, Trump has been charged in New York for allegedly bribing porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, during the 2016 election campaign to buy his silence and in Florida for taking and illegally keeping classified White House documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
In the current case, in Washington DC, he is accused of the events that occurred between the November 3, 2020 elections, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and after January 6, 2021, when a mob of his followers broke into the Capitol, when a session of the two chambers of Congress was being held to ratify the victory of his opponent.
The former president arrived in Washington DC this Thursday to appear in court, coming from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Upon arrival at the Ronald Reagan airport in the capital, where he traveled aboard his personal plane, Trump Force One, the former president, dressed in a blue suit and red tie, with a serious face, could be seen coming down the stairs of the aircraft.
Before getting into the vehicle that was waiting for him, Trump said “thank you” to the journalists gathered at the foot of the track.
