Thursday’s hearing represents a somber moment in American history. CNN has established that they include Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and constitutional attorney John Eastman. Six co-conspirators are also named in the indictment but were not charged. Trump faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Trump's latest indictment echoes January 6 committee findings REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2022. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Liz Cheney (R-WY) begin the final public meeting of the U.S. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and committee Vice Chair Rep. His legal team has already signaled an attempt to delay proceedings until after the November 2024 election in which he could be the GOP nominee.Ĭommittee chair Rep. Thursday’s brief hearing before a magistrate judge will be closely watched for any clues as to the timing of a trial, given that Trump’s calendar is filling up with campaign events and two potential trials in other matters next year. Trump’s team is also already arguing he will never get a fair trial in a city where he won only 5% of the vote in 2020 and that he often demonizes. Trump is expected to enter a plea of not guilty, as his lawyers prepare arguments that his claims of election fraud were protected by free speech and that he was simply following the advice of his lawyers, for instance in seeking to assemble alternative electors in key states. The procedural hearing for Trump’s arraignment – which follows Tuesday’s bombshell indictment from special counsel Jack Smith – will take place at a federal courthouse near to where he told his supporters to “fight like hell” to save their country and just down the hill from the Capitol, which his crowd invaded on January 6, 2021. Interactive: Former President Donald Trump’s third indictment, annotated Hundreds of Trump’s supporters have already faced a courtroom reckoning for their efforts to disrupt the certification of a democratic election. It is also a defining moment in the effort by government and judicial institutions to account for the worst attack on democracy in modern times. The hearing will be the latest twist in an extraordinary and historic saga surrounding an ex-president and front-runner for a major party nomination in 2024, who has so far been indicted in three separate criminal probes. Trump will be arraigned after being indicted over a series of alleged schemes to thwart President Joe Biden’s victory and his conduct following the mob attack on the US Capitol, behavior that was described by his own attorney general, Bill Barr, as “nauseating” and “despicable” in an exclusive CNN interview on Wednesday.Īlthough this will not be the ex-president’s first trip back to the capital after snubbing Biden’s inauguration, the sight of his motorcade winding its way through Washington, DC, may trigger trauma still felt by residents over a dark day in history 31 months ago. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to return to the epicenter of his alleged bid to overthrow the 2020 election to answer historic charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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