2023-08-01 21:37:00
The former tenant of the White House was charged on Tuesday by the special prosecutor investigating his attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election, won by Joe Biden.
In his own way, Donald Trump continues to write the history of the United States. The former president was indicted on Tuesday in the 2020 US presidential election interference case. he hopes to win.
A few minutes before this announcement made by several American media, including ABC and the New York Times, Donald Trump had said he expected such a decision.
“I am told that Jack Smith the crackpot, for interfering in the presidential election of 2024, will launch a new bogus indictment of your favorite president, me,” he wrote on his Truth Social account.
The special prosecutor, for his part, announced that he wanted a “trial without delay”.
Before a judge on Thursday
The top frontrunner in the Republican primaries for next year’s election is charged with ‘conspiring against the American state’, obstructing official process and abusing electoral rights after an investigation overseen by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.
The 45-page indictment has been published by several American and international media. Donald Trump is due to appear before a judge in Washington this Thursday at 4:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. Paris time) to be formally charged.
Asked by CNN, the White House declined to comment.
“A Witch Hunt”
On Truth Social, Donald Trump was offended by the “attempt” of the “Biden family to interfere in the 2024 presidential election”. Denouncing a “witch hunt” which he compares to the “Nazi regime in the 1930s, the Soviet Union and other dictatorships and authoritarian regimes”, he assures that he has always respected the law and the Constitution.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump had sown chaos and violence in the Washington Capitol, temple of American democracy, when elected officials certified the victory of his rival Joe Biden in the presidential election.
A parliamentary commission, dissolved earlier this year by the new Republican majority, investigated the role of the Republican that day.
In high-profile hearings, this Democratic-majority panel claimed that the former president had whitewashed his supporters before the coup and “failed in his duty as commander-in-chief” during the assault.
Trump entangled in business
This charge is the third for Donald Trump. The Republican billionaire is already charged in thefederal investigation into confidential documents, also led by Jack Smith. He is accused of having refused to return documents that he would have kept when he left the White House, despite legal injunctions.
Donald Trump has also been criminally charged by New York State justice for several charges of accounting fraud, in connection with a payment made before the 2016 presidential election aimed at silencing a porn actress.
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