(Finance) – “I’m going to Washington where they will arrest me for contesting a corrupt and stolen election: it’s a great honor because they will arrest me for you. Make America great again!”. That’s what she wrote Donald Trump on his Truth Social profile a few hours after his appearance in the federal court of the capital, where he will be challenged with new charges including that of having tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections. another indictment to ensure my election” to the White House, he concluded. Trump is expected in court at 4 pm, 10 pm Italian time for what promises to be a short hearing, in which he will participate only with his lawyers. For the third time, a former US president will be under arrest, at least for an hour. In Washington, the tycoon is indicted for the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. The whole area has been cordoned off by the police and the main roads have been blocked off with huge snowplows, a measure already adopted during the celebrations for the independence day 4th july to avoid terrorist attacks with car or truck.
Trump will hold a press point at around 5pm local time, 11pm Italian, after the court hearing in Washington for his third indictment.
A small crowd of anti-Trump protesters she found herself in front of the Washington court where the tycoon will soon arrive. “Celebrate the arrest of Trump”, she reads on a sign held up by a very colorful protester who bestows hats and trumpets to the sound of music. She also presents the inevitable ‘Baby Trump’ with diaper and the writing “loser” (loser) that she cries and screams “I don’t want to go to jail”.
Trump told his supporters in a fundraising email sent yesterday that he could face up to 561 years in prison. “With the corrupt Doj of Dishonest Joe illegally indicting yours truly once again, reports indicate I now could face a total of 561 years in prison due to Leftist witch hunts,” Trump wrote. .
THE Trump lawyers intend to aim for a “fair” trial rather than a speedy trial that concludes before the 2024 presidential elections. “The right to a speedy trial belongs to the defense, not to the government. The government has an obligation to present documents information, which he hasn’t done yet but will: he has been investigating this case for three and a half years,” explained one of Trump’s lawyers, John Lauro, interviewed by NPR. “So it seems to me that we should be given the necessary time to study the documents, question witnesses and look at the evidence as a whole – he added -. So what we want is a fair trial, not simply a speedy trial, and we hope that the Department of Justice recognizes that justice is more important than speed.”
According to the latest CNN poll, theGrand old party electorate is still on Trump’s side. As many as 69% of Republicans or sympathizers believe Biden’s victory was illegitimate, up from 63% earlier this year. Not only that, of these, 39% believe that there is concrete evidence that the elections were rigged, while 30% only have a “suspect”. Ahead of a fourth indictment in Georgia by September, rather than jail time or the loss of the Republican nomination, Trump’s most pressing problem is funds for the 2024 campaign after he’s already spent $40 million defending himself. An issue that, for other reasons, also affects Biden who in fact has decided to strengthen his team for collecting donations.