2024-03-12 06:07:59
If he wins the presidential election in November, Republican Donald Trump will release the 500 people imprisoned following the assault on the Capitol, he assures.
Former US President Donald Trump promised to release those imprisoned for their participation in the assault on the Capitol in 2021 upon his return to power, in the event of victoire in the presidential election in November.
“My first measures as the next president will be to close the border (…) and release the January 6 hostages wrongly imprisoned!”, wrote the former American president Monday evening on his Truth Social network, without providing more details.
In the past, he had already raised the question of his possible return to the White House, pledging during a television program in December not to act like a dictator except for his “first day”.
In January, during a campaign event in Iowa (north), the billionaire called the Democratic president Joe Biden to “free the hostages”a term he regularly uses to designate people incarcerated for their participation in the assault on the temple of American democracy.
500 people in prison
Rioters, emboldened by Donald Trump and false claims of electoral fraud, invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to try to prevent the transfer of power to Joe Biden.
Some 1,358 people were charged since that date, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Justice published last week. Approximately 500 individuals were sentenced to prison sentences.
Trump is the target of four criminal proceedings, including two for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in his favor, after his defeat by Joe Biden.
Trial postponement?
The former president, almost assured of receiving the Republican nomination for the presidential election, asked the New York courts this Monday to postpone his criminal trial scheduled for March 25 in a case of payments to an porn actress, in order to wait for a Supreme Court decision on his presidential immunity.
In criminal cases, Donald Trump’s lawyers advance the argument that his presidential immunity (2017-2021) which will be debated by the United States Supreme Court starting April 25.
Four primaries this Tuesday
Donald Trump should be officially confirmed in his status as Republican candidate for the American presidential election after the primaries organized this Tuesday in four states: Georgia, Mississippi, Washington and Hawaii.
The former president is the only Republican still running in the November election.
Her last rival Nikki Haley threw in the towel on March 6.
But to be designated as the official candidate of the party, he must still win a certain number of delegates, representatives supposed to crown him at a convention in the summer. In total, he must win 1,215.
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