The defense of former United States President Donald Trump will ask to transfer the trial for his attempt to subvert the 2020 elections to a court outside Washington DC because he considers that Judge Tanya Chutkan is not impartial, the former president announced this Sunday. “There is no way he can get a fair trial with the assigned judge,” the Republican said in a social media post in which he called the case in which he is charged “ridiculous.” “Everyone knows it and so does she! We will immediately call for the dismissal of this judge on very strong grounds and move her location out of DC as well,” he added.
Trump also insulted again the special prosecutor in the case, Jack Smith, whom he called “disturbed”, and reiterated that the Department of Justice is investigating him for being the main “opponent” of the president of the United States, the Democrat Joe Biden, facing to next year’s elections.Trump appeared on Thursday before the federal court of the District of Columbia where he pleaded not guilty to the four crimes with which he is charged, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison, for having tried to reverse the 2020 elections in which he lost to Joe Biden and instigated the assault on the Capitol.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of having deliberately lied when denouncing false electoral fraud and of having devised a plan to reverse the results of the elections that led to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters attacked Congress to prevent ratification. of Biden’s victory. In an interview with CNN, John Lauro, the former president’s lawyer, denied that Trump participated in a “conspiracy” against the elections and argued that all he did was “protest” the election results, something that is protected by “freedom expression”. In addition, he rejected that the pressure that Trump exerted on his vice president, Mike Pence, so that, in his capacity as president of the Senate, he stopped the ratification of Biden’s victory in Congress, is punishable.
“What President Trump did not do was order Vice President Pence to do nothing. He asked for it in an aspirational way. Asking is protected by the First Amendment,” he argued.
Pence, since then estranged from Trump, has denounced on multiple occasions that the former president pressured him to bypass the Constitution.
This is the third criminal charge against the former president, also charged in New York for bribing porn actress Stormy Daniels and in Miami for illegally taking classified documents when he left power, a case also investigated by prosecutor Jack Smith. The legal proceedings against him, however, have not diminished the popularity of Trump, a great favorite in the Republican primaries ahead of the 2024 elections, in which he aspires to fight Biden again.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
