Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) noted this Monday that he will attend the federal appeals court hearing in person this Tuesday in Washington D.C. to defend that he had immunity during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“On Tuesday I will attend the Federal Court of Appeals arguments on presidential immunity in Washington, DC. Of course, as president of the United States and commander in chief, I was entitled to immunity,” said the former Republican president.
The case is currently in the appeals court because, last December 1District of Columbia Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump's 2020 election subversion case, rejected Trump's requests to file it for presidential immunity but agreed to stay the proceedings while he appeals the decision.
The president's team appealed and the next step is for the appeals court to study it during a hearing scheduled for January 9.
It is likely that once the appeals court issues its ruling, one of the parties will appeal again and the case will end up in the United States Supreme Court.
“I was not campaigning, the elections had ended a long time ago. I was looking for electoral fraud and finding it, which is my obligation,” said Trump, who is indicted and faces criminal charges for interrupting the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden by broadcasting of false theories about electoral fraud.On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol with the aim of interrupting the parliamentary session in which Biden's victory in the 2020 elections was going to be certified.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of United States President Donald Trump protested outside the United States Capitol in Washington, DC.
The assault came after Trump, at a rally outside the White House, urged the crowd to head to Congress and “fight with all their might.”
Five people died then, four police officers subsequently committed suicide, 1,250 people have been charged and 890 convictions have already been handed down.
Trump, the Republican favorite to be the presidential candidate in the November elections, has made the legally unproven argument that he should have “absolute immunity” from conspiracy charges, one of the four criminal charges he faces.
The former president thus seeks to avoid the trial for which he is accused of several crimes – the most serious being conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure – that could lead to a maximum of 55 years in prison.
The start of the trial is initially scheduled for March 4, 2024 in the federal capital, coinciding fully with the primary election process.
The litigation over immunity, however, may in turn become a delaying strategy by the former president's legal team to delay that date.
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