BREAKING: Former U.S. president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges related to trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
pleaded not guilty to federal charges after being arraigned in Washington, D.C. on Thursday related to an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
The U.S. magistrate judge overseeing the arraignment, Moxila Upadhyaya, set the next court date for Aug. 28, however said Trump will not be required to attend. He added that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will oversee the trial, is expected to set a trial date at that time. with four criminal counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate those exercising the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.of conspiring with six close allies to try and overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden and unlawfully block the transfer of power.This eventually led to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack by Trump’s supporters on the U.S. Capitol.
But much like the 38 criminal counts he faces in the classified documents case — which alleges Trump withheld national security materials and misled federal investigators seeking their return — the election case headed by special counsel Jack Smith casts a dark cloud over the implications of Trump potentially reclaiming not just the Republican nomination, but the presidency as well.
The federal judge assigned to the election fraud case has stood out as one of the toughest punishers of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by former president Barack Obama, has handed down prison sentences in Jan. 6 riot cases that are harsher than Justice Department prosecutors recommended.
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