Donald Trump Arrives At D.C. Courthouse To Face Conspiracy Charges Over 2020 Election; Faces Up To 35 Years Behind Bars For Efforts To Overturning Vote
03.08.2023 - 19:35
/ deadline.com
Amidst the circus and chaos that has become his brand, Donald Trump has arrived in court today in Washington D.C. to face criminal charges over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The 45th President of the United States is now in custody to be arraigned.
In his third indictment in just over as many months, Trump is charged on multiple counts, including 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.
With half a dozen unnamed but not unknown co-conspirators, it all adds up to the horror of a then sitting POTUS literally and figuratively trying to engineer a siege of American democracy.
Trump is set to appear in front of Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in the next hour in a room in E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse that has seen a number of January 6 insurrectionist face justice over the past two years. With even tighter than usual security in the nation’s capital right now, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, has been selected to oversee the actual trial.
Special Counsel Jack Smith unveiled the charges against Trump yesterday. The indictment was handed down by a grand jury on Wednesday afternoon, and was unsealed at about 2:30 PT.
This is the third indictment against the leading contender for the 2024 GOP nomination in four months. Looking at 78 felony charges across the trio of criminal cases, Trump faces a maximum of 35-years alone in this latest case
Reminiscent of the infamous OJ Simpson white Ford Bronco freeway chase back in 1994 and Trump’s own trip to Miami in June to face federal charges there stemming from the stockpiling of classified