2024-04-26 08:04:32
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April 26, 2024
12:04 p.m.
Possible ruling could prevent Trump from being tried before election
Gulf – Agencies
The US Supreme Court has revealed it could make a decision regarding former President Donald Trump that would prevent him from being tried before the election.
The court said it could extend Trump’s request for immunity from prosecution, in a result that could eliminate any chance of him being tried before the election for trying to illegally stay in power, according to what Bloomberg News reported Thursday.
The judiciary, after hearing defenses Thursday in Washington, expressed doubt about the former president’s claims that he enjoys immunity in his efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory. But a key member of the Court, Justice John Roberts, said he disagreed with part of the appeals court’s opinion allowing the trial to continue, and discussed dismissing the case to lower courts to take a closer look at the allegations against Trump.
Last Tuesday, prosecutors in the US state of New York charged former US President Donald Trump with corrupting the 2016 election. They said, on the first day of Donald Trump’s trial in the case ” buy silence,” that the former president violated the law and spoiled the election in 2016, while his lawyer said Trump was innocent.
In the historic trial, jurors heard briefly from the first witness, former National Enquirer magazine publisher David Pecker, who prosecutors say participated in a scheme to prevent the publication of articles that Trump did not want. not see published and helped him win the elections. .
In the first-ever trial of a former US president, Trump was accused of falsifying business records, and Trump pleaded not guilty and denied it happened. Prosecutors described it as a criminal attempt to deceive voters, at a time when Trump was facing other accusations of insulting behavior.
“This was a planned, coordinated, long-term conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, help Donald Trump win through illegal spending, and silence people who had anything negative to say about his behavior,” said Attorney General Matthew Colangelo, emphasizing that “this is election fraud.
Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, told the jury that the former president committed no crime, emphasizing that the prosecution should not have pursued the case. Stressing that “there is nothing wrong with trying to influence elections. This is what we call democracy. “They added something sinister to this idea, as if it were a crime.”
This discreet shopping case could be the only one of four criminal cases against Trump being heard before the presidential elections scheduled for November 5.
Many legal experts consider this case the least important of Trump’s trials, based on facts that have become public since 2018. The conviction, if handed down, would not prevent him from becoming president if he wins the elections.
Trump, who has been on trial in New York since April 15 on charges of paying money during the 2016 campaign to silence a former actress who claims he had a relationship with her, expressed regret that the judge this trial did not excuse him. him to be present that day, to witness the deliberations of the Supreme Court during one of its last sessions, which ends on June 30.
He said: “The president should have immunity, and I had nothing to do with that. ” He added: “Without immunity, you won’t do anything. You will become honorary president”, for fear of being “accused once you leave office”.
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