The previous US president has been accused of making an attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat
Former US President Donald Trump will enter a not responsible plea to felony expenses in a revised indictment accusing him of making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election outcomes. The case is said to the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol Constructing in Washington, DC by Trump supporters within the aftermath of his defeat.
The Republican candidate on this 12 months’s race for the White Home stated in a court docket submitting on Tuesday that he wouldn’t be current at a proper studying of the fees towards him. He additionally licensed his attorneys “to enter a plea of not responsible” on his behalf “to each depend of the superseding indictment.” The listening to is scheduled for Thursday.
The revised indictment contains the identical 4 expenses prosecutors introduced towards Trump final 12 months and that he pleaded not responsible to in August 2023.
Trump was accused of conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy towards the voting rights of residents, and obstruction of congressional certification of the election.
The brand new doc is a stripped-down model of final 12 months’s felony case towards Trump. Sure allegations had been dropped and reframed after the US Supreme Court docket dominated that Trump has broad immunity from felony prosecution over official actions taken throughout his time period as president.
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and denounced the case as an try to forestall him from returning to the White Home. In a sequence of posts on his Fact Social platform late final month, he known as it “a direct assault on democracy” and a “resurrection of a lifeless witch hunt.”
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