The defense of the former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021) will ask to transfer the trial for his attempt to subvert the 2020 elections to a court outside Washington DC because he considers that the judge Tanya Chutkan It is not impartial, the former president announced this Sunday.
“There is no way that I can have a fair trial with the ‘assigned’ judge,” the Republican said in a post on social networks in which he opined that the case in which he is accused is “ridiculous.”
“Everyone knows it and so does she! We will immediately request the rejection of this judge for very powerful reasons and also change the place, outside of DC, “he added. Trump.
Trump he also insulted again the special prosecutor of the case, jack smithwhom he called “upset”, and reiterated that the Justice Department investigates him for being the main “opponent” of the president of USAthe democrat Joe Bidenahead of next year’s elections.
Trump appeared Thursday in federal court in D.C. where he pleaded not guilty to the four crimes charged against him, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison, for having tried to reverse the 2020 elections in which he lost against Joe Biden and having instigated the assault on the Capitol.
The prosecution accuses him of having deliberately lied when denouncing electoral fraud and of having devised a plan to reverse the results of the elections that led to the assault on the Capitol 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Congress to prevent the ratification of the victory of Biden.
It is the third criminal charge against the former president, also accused in NY for bribing the porn actress stormy daniels and in Miami for having illegally taken classified documents when leaving power, a case also investigated by the prosecutor jack smith.
The judicial proceedings against him, however, have not diminished the popularity of Trumpgreat favorite in the Republican primaries ahead of the 2024 elections, in which he aspires to fight again with Biden.
