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The former president of the United States, indicted on Tuesday for conspiracy against the state, must be tried for having tried to reverse the results of the election and to have favored the assault on Capitol Hill.
Posted on 08/06/2023 18:40 Updated on 08/06/2023 18:52
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Former United States President Donald Trump during a speech in Columbia, South Carolina (United States), August 5, 2023. (MELISSA SUE GERRITS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Donald Trump has announced that he wants to “recuse” the judge who is to oversee his future trial in Washington on Sunday August 6. “I can in no way get a fair trial with the judge ‘assigned’ to this ridiculous case of free speech and fair elections”thundered the former president of the United States, on his social network Truth Social. “We will immediately request that this judge be challenged, on very solid grounds, and likewise [demander] a change of scenery [du procès] out of [Washington] DC”he added of federal judge Tanya Chutkan and the court in the US capital.
The magistrate must preside over the case which earned Donald Trump his third – and most serious – criminal charge. She is known for having harshly condemned supporters of the ex-president who took part in the storming of the Capitol. conspiracy against the state in connection with its attempts to reverse the November 2020 election result.
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The former American head of state came to Washington on Thursday to plead not guilty to the four charges against him. On August 28, he should know the date of his trial, the special prosecutor Jack Smith who investigated wishing to see the case judged “without delay”.
Donald Trump, favorite in the Republican Party primaries for the November 2024 presidential election, has also been charged by federal justice for his alleged negligent management of confidential White House documents. He is also being sued by New York State justice in a case of alleged accounting fraud linked to payments to buy the silence of a former porn actress. Trials are to be held in March and May 2024.
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