In a Washington court, the former US president will be charged with conspiracy against the government of the United States, conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings, and conspiracy against civil rights in an attempt to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. He is also charged with obstructing and attempting to obstruct official proceedings.
The former Republican president himself, in posts on the Pravda social network, called the case “fake”, accused the prosecutor Jack Smith of professional failure and suggested that the case should divert attention from the legal troubles of Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic President Joe Biden. .
Trump should not be formally arrested in court and is not expected to be subjected to routine police photography given his public status. He is due to arrive at the court at 22:00 CET.
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Donald Trump supporters at the courthouse
On the other hand, the ex-president was to be digitally fingerprinted and Judge Moxila Upadhyaya was to set bail conditions. But it could still be months before the actual test begins.
The current case involves Trump’s unsubstantiated post-election allegations of voter fraud, followed by an assault on the Congress building by a mob of his radical supporters that killed five people.
Threatened by prison, 641 probably not
In addition, he has been charged with two other criminal cases. In the first, on April 4, he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the case of secret campaign payments to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. An additional 37 charges in the case of hiding classified documents at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago were added on June 13, and three additional charges were later added to the case.
In general, if you add up the maximum rates of punishment for all charges, ex-President Trump could theoretically face up to 641 years in prison, Politico calculated, however, with the caveat that this is an unrealistic calculation. Some sentences would not be increased, but rather reduced, and the ex-president, since he has not yet been punished, would hardly have received the maximum rating on all counts. But he points out that the prison threat is real because some crimes, such as conspiracies against the US government, usually carry relatively harsh sentences.
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