Donald Trump’s defense will ask to transfer the trial for his attempt to destabilize the 2020 elections to a court outside Washington DC because he believes that Judge Tanya Chutkan is not impartial, according to an announcement by the Republican.
“There is no way I can have a fair trial with the ‘assigned’ judge,” Trump said in a social media post, calling the case in which he is accused “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“Added the former president.
Likewise, Trump once again insulted the special prosecutor in the case, Jack Smith, whom he called “upset”, and reiterated that the Department of Justice is investigating him for being the main opponent of the current president, Joe Biden, ahead of the 2024 elections. .
Trump appeared Thursday before federal court in the District of Columbia, 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 for having instigated the assault on the Capitol.
The prosecution accused him of having deliberately lied after denouncing false electoral fraud, in addition to leading a plan to reverse the results of the elections, which led to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, when a mob of his followers attacked Congress to prevent the ratification of Biden’s victory.
John Lauro, the former president’s lawyer, denied in an interview offered to CNN that Trump participated in a “conspiracy” against the elections and argued that all he did was “protest” the election results, something that is protected by “free speech”.
In the same way, he rejected that the pressure that Trump exerted on his vice president, Mike Pence, so that, in his capacity as president of the Senate, stop the ratification of Biden’s victory before Congress, is punishable, reported the EFE agency.
“What President Trump did not do was order Vice President Pence to do nothing. He asked for it aspirationally. Asking is covered by the First Amendment,” she argued.
Pence, who since then went on to oppose Trump, denounced on multiple occasions that the former president pressured him to break the Constitution.
It has been the third criminal charge against the former president, who has also been charged in New York for bribing the porn actress Stormy Daniels and in Miami for having illegally taken classified documents when leaving power, a case also investigated by prosecutor Jack Smith.
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