Donald Trump arrived at the Washington court for a hearing on his third indictment. For the third time in a few months, Donald Trump arrives in a court to hear the charges against him and, for the third time, a former president of the United States will be under arrest, at least for an hour. In Washington, however, it is another story compared to New York and Miami: the tycoon is indicted for the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, one of the darkest pages in American history that took place just a few meters from the federal court in which Trump presents himself, the same in which hundreds of rioters marched.
The whole area was cordoned off by the police and the main roads were blocked with huge snowplows, a measure already taken during the celebrations for Independence Day, July 4, to avoid terrorist attacks with cars or trucks. The police are also on high alert because the images of violence from the attack on Congress are still alive in the memory of residents, scenes that neither the FBI nor the Metroplitan police want to risk repeating.
The former president, as always, sounded the charge and in an email sent to his supporters to raise funds warned that he could face up to 561 years in prison. "It's not my fault that my political opponent in the Democratic Party, the 'corrupt' Joe Biden, told his attorney general to charge the main (by far!) Republican candidate and former president of the United States of all possible crimes so as to force him to spend all the money on defense", attacked the tycoon on his social Truth, reiterating that the indictments against him are "an unprecedented instrumentalization of justice and adding that "he needs another one to ensure victory in 2024".
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Another of the former president's defense arguments is that a trial in Washington, a deeply democratic and anti-Trumpian city, would not be fair. In addition, of course, to deny before Judge Tanya Chutkan the accusations of having ridden "lies" to stay in power and of having "encouraged" the uprising in collaboration with six "co-conspirators" who have not been named as not officially indicted but who are almost certainly his former lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and another lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, plus an unidentified sixth.
According to the latest CNN poll, however, the Grand Old Party electorate is still on Trump's side. As many as 69% of Republicans or supporters believe Biden's victory was illegitimate, up from 63% at the beginning of the year. Not only that, of these, 39% believe that there is concrete evidence that the elections were rigged, while 30% have only the "suspicion".
For 70% of Republicans, Biden's victory is illegitimate - North America - Ansa.it 69% of Republicans or Republican sympathizers believe that Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 elections was illegitimate. (ANSA)
Waiting for the fourth indictment in Georgia by September, more than jail time or loss of the Republican nomination, Trump's most pressing issue is the funds for the 2024 campaign after he has already spent $ 40 million to defend himself. An issue that, for other reasons, also touches Biden who in fact has decided to strengthen his team for the collection of donations. The president hired three top managers from the Democratic National Committee — Colleen Coffey, Michael Pratt and Jessica Porter — to give the campaign an economic boost. "Colleen, Jessica and Michael have been invaluable to date and will be instrumental in implementing a historic and unprecedented fundraising operation," said Julie Chavez Rodriguez. A few days ago, Biden retired to his beach house at Rehoboth Beach with First Lady Jill. Between bike rides and church visits, the president wants to keep a low profile and try, as much as possible, to stay away from Washington and his opponent's judicial troubles.
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Biden: I will not follow Donald Trump's arrest
Joe Biden will not follow Donald Trump's arrest in Washington today. The US president himself said this in response to a question from journalists returning from a bike ride to Rehoboth Beach, where he is spending a few days of vacation with First Lady Jill.
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