Trump’s trial for the attack on the Capitol will be in March

American judge Tanya S. Chutkanin charge of the trial against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) for attempting to nullify the 2020 election, has decided that the trial date will be March 4, 2024

The judge, who will try the case that culminated in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, made the announcement after a hearing held in the US capital, media reported.

In doing so, he rejected special prosecutor Jack Smith’s wish to start the trial in January 2024. on a date close to the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol.

Also, the interest of the defense of the former president to postpone the process until the next presidential elections, which will be held in November 2024 and in which Trump he is still the favorite Republican candidate. They requested that the trial begin in April 2026.

Selected date 04.03. It’s the day before Super Tuesdaywhich is the closest thing the United States has to a national primary, since more than a dozen states, both Republican and Democratic, will simultaneously hold internal processes to select their candidates.

The former president was accused in Washington DC four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings, obstruction and attempted obstruction of official proceedings, and conspiracy to violate law.

She could face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the first of these charges, twenty years for the second and third, and twenty years for the fourth. ten years.

The indictment describes how, after losing the Nov. 3, 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, the then-president conspired to “overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.” with false claims that there was electoral fraud and more shenanigans.

Reading the charges against the former US president Donald Trump (2017-2021) and 18 others indicted in Georgia for attempting to overturn the results of that state’s 2020 election will be held on September 6.

All 19 will then have the opportunity to plead guilty or plead not guilty.

Trump stated acquitted in the other three crimes in which he was also accused: for irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up her past “affairs” during the 2016 campaign, for illegally taking classified documents from the White House while leaving office, and for attacking the Capitol.