Donald Trump’s official indictment has made everyone in the US wonder what to do now? The race for the White House in 2024 it is more uncertain than ever and also the judicial calendar of the former Republican president.
This while the other major contender, Democratic President Joe Biden, is taking his time announcing a candidacy that it is taken for granted.
Before a New York judge, Donald Trump, the first former US president to be indicted, pleaded not guilty that he orchestrated payments to silence issues harmful to him before the 2016 presidential election.
It remains to be seen whether this case, one of many that concern the billionaire, will go to trial.
The calendar For him it is essential as he hopes to win the Republican nomination for the November 2024 presidential election.
Justice is betting on an imminent appearance at the end of the year and a trial in January 2024shortly before the primaries, but the former president’s lawyers disagree.
A “zombie” case.
“We’re not going before a jury,” one of them, Joe Tacopina, told NBC on Wednesday, convinced of it the case will fall under its own weight due to legal difficulties. He called it a “zombie” case.
Meanwhile Trump, who has been released, you can campaign at will provided that he “refrains from comments that could incite violence” about his case, judge Juan Merchán warned on Tuesday, who did not impose the “gag law”the absolute prohibition of mentioning the procedure in public.
But moderation is not the tycoon’s strong point, who on Tuesday night tried to take advantage of the media attention that his indictment has brought.
The former president, tense throughout the day, described the accusation, detailed in 34 charges, of “Insulting the Nation”, from Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious residence in Florida. He estimated that the prosecutor himself should be “prosecuted” and said the judge and his family “hate” him.
his speech, provocative and monotonous at timeshe was in front of the fans who came to listen to him dressed in the typical red caps of his rallies.
After a trip that tried to make it look as presidential as possible, With a private plane and a security trailer on the streets of New York, Trump faced two hours in a Manhattan courthouse.
The former president gave his name, age and profession and was fingerprinted, but he avoided the humiliating mug shot.
The billionaire claims he is the victim of a “witch hunt” promoted by the Democrats of President Biden, who according to him he “stole” his victory presidential elections in 2020.
For his part, the Democrat felt that this appearance was “not a priority” for him, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.
Trump is accused of “orchestrating” a series of payments for cover three cases before the November 2016 elections. In particular the payment of 130,000 dollars to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had an extramarital affair in 2006 which he flatly denies.
Donald Duck Trump ‘hasn’t stopped lying’said Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, of the Democratic Party, who denounces “serious criminal conduct”.
Biden’s indifference
Biden opted for stay outrefusing to comment on his possible rival’s legal troubles in 2024. And he continued with his agenda with an almost total indifference.
But she hopes it will benefit in the long run, especially since Donald Trump has just begun a series of appearances and court proceedings.
And is that the former president is the object of various investigations: For attempting to influence the results of the Georgia presidential election, for his alleged role in the January 6, 2021 storming of his supporters of the Capitol, and for handling classified documents.
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Source: Clarin
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