The former president of the USA donald trump is summoned this Thursday before the court in charge of the criminal case for the classified documents found in his house in Florida in 2022 for the arraignment of three new charges, but asked not to appear in person and pleaded not guilty in writing.
The judge Aileen Cannon has not yet ruled on this request by lawyers for Trump in which he waived his right to attend the arraignment, but did do so and denied a request from a media “coalition.”
The judge said Tuesday “no” to the media being able to bring electronic devices to the court of Fort Piercea town 200 kilometers from Miamiwhere the case is based.
In addition to Trump are summoned before the judge shaniek mills Maynardat 10:00 a.m. (14:00 GMT), Waltine Nauta and Carlos Oliveiratwo employees of the former president accused of helping him hide the classified documents.
For Oliveiraof Portuguese origin, who is the manager of the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beachwhere Trump has his residence in Floridawill be the first reading of charges and for Waltine Nautapersonal assistant to the former president, the second.
Oliveira is out on bail after being indicted on July 31 for allegedly requesting the removal of security camera footage from sea-a-lake that the investigators of the case had claimed.
TO Trump and Nauta The additional charges imputed on July 27 to each one by the special prosecutor will be read to them. jack smithwho also acts in the case against the ex-president for the case related to the taking of Capitol on January 6, 2021 by his supporters who wanted to prevent the certification of the electoral victory of the current president Joe Biden.
Smith added to the initial 37 charges against Trump: one of “deliberate withholding of national defense information” and two additional charges of “obstruction”, related to alleged attempts to remove surveillance video footage in the summer of 2022.
The former president, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claims that the legal proceedings against him are a “electoral interference at the highest level» and he blames everything on his successor, the current US president, Joe Biden.
Despite his problems with Justice Trump is the clear favorite to win the Republican primaries in 2024 and thus compete with Biden by White House in November of that same year.
