The criminal trial of the former US president and Republican candidate American Donald Trump in Georgia (USA) for trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in that state it was suspended this Wednesday by order of the Court of Appeals.
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This order affects Trump and eight other defendants in this case and complicates the possibility of the process taking place before the presidential elections next November, in which he is scheduled to face the American president.Democrat Joe Biden.
The prosecutor is in the spotlight for the relationship she had with a subordinate: special prosecutor Nathan Wade,Something that according to the complainants created a conflict of interest that vitiated the process.
Of the four criminal trials opened against Trump, the only one that has already taken place is the one launched in New York for falsification of business records to buy silence in 2016 about a relationship he had with porn actress Stormy Daniels. The jury found him guilty last week and the sentence will be announced on July 11.
In Washington, another one is open for electoral interference, while in Florida he is accused of taking classified documents from the White House when he left power, which he kept in his Mar-a-Lago mansion. Neither of these two processes has a start date set.
Donald Trump sweeps the latest US primaries
Trump took a total of 94 delegates with majorities above 80% despite arriving at the trial as a “convicted criminal” after last week’s guilty verdict for hiding payments to a porn actress due to her silence during the 2016 election campaign, something that could land her up to four years in prison.
These were the first internal votes that were held after learning of the sentence received in NY last week for falsifying business records to try to buy silence in 2016 about the relationship he had with porn actress Stormy Daniels.
The Republicans thus expressed their final majority support for the American magnate in these votes that are already symbolic, since Trump has surpassed the threshold of delegates that will allow him to be declared the party’s presidential candidate next month. a few days after he learns his sentence in a New York court.
At the moment, Trump leads the polls, with 41.1% of voting intentions, 1.5 points more than his main rival, the current president of the United States Joe Bidenaccording to the average of surveys prepared by the FiveThirtyEight website.
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