The former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) went to court this Thursday after arriving at the headquarters of the federal court of the District of Columbia for the reading of charges after being charged for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the elections of 2020.
According to the media, Trump has already entered the arraignment room, where special counsel Jack Smith, who has led the investigation against Trump, is also present.
Smith was also present at the former president’s appearance in June before a Florida court for illegally taking and keeping classified White House documents at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
Trump, 77, arrived at Ronald Reagan airport in the US capital at 2:48 p.m. (6:48 p.m. GMT) aboard his plane, Trump Force One, which had departed shortly before from Newark airfield, in New Sweater.
Previously, the caravan of Trump’s vehicles, who as a former president has protection from the US secret service, had arrived in Newark from his Bedminster golf club, in that state.
When he was flying to Washington DC, Trump used his social network, Truth, to cry out against the president, Joe Biden, in addition to the place and the judge chosen for this case.
“Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRITES from foreign countries, and I am going to DC to be ARRESTED for protesting a rigged ELECTION. AN UNFAIR PLACE, AN UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a nation in decline. MAGA ‘Make America Great Again’)!!!” Trump wrote in his usual style.
The ex-governor, the favorite candidate among Republicans to run in the 2024 elections, is accompanied by two of his lawyers and several managers of his electoral campaign.
Trump has to appear today before Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in the federal court of the District of Columbia, where Washington is located, for the reading of the charges.
The former president faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official procedure, and conspiracy against rights.
It is foreseeable that Trump will plead not guilty, as he has done in the two previous criminal charges he has received.
Trump is charged in New York for allegedly bribing porn actress Stormy Daniels (with whom he had an “affair” in the past) in the 2016 election campaign to buy her silence, and in Florida for illegally taking and keeping in his Mar-a-Lago mansion classified White House documents.
In the current case, in Washington DC, he is accused of the events that occurred between the November 3, 2020 elections, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and after January 6, 2021, when a mob of his followers broke into the Capitol when a session of the two chambers of Congress was being held to ratify the victory of his opponent.
