Trump, indicted for his interference in the 2020 elections
The charges against the former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) accumulate. This Tuesday he has been charged for efforts to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Special counsel Jack Smith filed four charges against the former Republican president and has announced that he will seek a “speedy trial.”
“My team will seek to hold a speedy trial so that our evidence can be proven in court and judged by a jury of citizens,” the prosecutor said in a brief appearance before the press.
The four new charges against Trump
Trump has been indicted by a Washington grand jury on four counts for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 election in which he lost to incumbent President Joe Biden.
In his appearance, Smith read out the four offenses Trump is charged with, which are listed in a 45-page indictment: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct official process, obstruction and attempt to obstruct official process. and conspiracy against rights.
Smith has said that the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of Trumpists who tried to stop the ratification of the election results was “an unprecedented attack on the seat of American democracy.”
He has denounced that said assault “was fueled by lies” from Trump with the objective of “obstructing” the counting and certification functions of the presidential elections.
The local media announced that the former president must appear before the Washington court next Thursday at 4:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. in Spain).
Trump anticipated the impeachment
Minutes before 5:00 p.m. local time (night in Spain), Trump had advanced on his social network, Truth Social, that he was going to be formally accused by Smith this Tuesday.
“I have heard that the Deranged Jack Smith, to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election, will release another False Imputation of his favorite President, me, at 5:00 PM,” the former president wrote.
“Why didn't they do this 2.5 years ago? Why have they waited so long? Because they wanted to do it in the middle of my campaign,” he said.. Misconduct of the Prosecutor's Office”.
Trump is currently the favorite candidate, according to polls, to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election. A new accusation against him would not prevent the former president from attending the elections.
Smith, appointed as a special prosecutor for the Department of Justice, is leading the investigation of Trump for his involvement in the 2021 assault on the Capitol and the classified papers found in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
Your other pending cases
For that second cause, in Florida, Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges for taking boxes full of classified documents to his Florida mansion when he left the White House in January 2021.
In addition, the former president was indicted in March in New York for the alleged illegal payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign in exchange for her silence about the “affair” they had ten years earlier, and another case is open in Georgia about his efforts to overturn Biden's victory in that southern state in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump, 77, lost the 2020 election to Biden but did not admit the result of the vote, denounced false voter fraud and pressured officials to reverse the result.