Trump returns to New Jersey after pleading ‘not guilty’ in Miami court

The former president of USA donald trump Return to New Jersey after being booked and prosecuted this Tuesday in a federal court of Miami on charges related to the retention of classified documents at his mansion in Floridaan accusation on which it was declared “not guilty”.

Before heading to Miami International AirportTrump stopped at a well-known Cuban cafe in the neighborhood of La little havanawhere he was greeted by dozens of followers and journalists who recorded the moment in which they sang happy birthday to the former president, who turns 77 this Wednesday.

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At least 200 people gathered outside the cafe versaillesan iconic place of Cuban exile from Miamiwhere a prayer was made for the former president, who did not eat anything during his brief stay on the premises.

Shortly after, Trump boarded his plane that will take him to Bedminster, in New Jerseywhere tonight he is planning a fundraising event for his campaign with a view to being the Republican candidate in the presidential elections in 2024.

The former president arrived in Miami on Monday afternoon and immediately went to a hotel he owned in the town of Doralwhere he spent the night and from where this Monday he left for the building in the center of the city that houses the federal courts.

“We certainly plead not guilty”, he pointed out this Monday in the room todd blancheTrump’s lawyer, during the first hearing, which lasted less than an hour, of this judicial process for which he faces 37 federal charges.

Trump, the first president and former president in the history of USA in facing federal indictment, was booked with fingerprinting and photograph and then appeared before federal judge Jonathan Goodman.

The full reading of the 37 charges against him was not carried out. grand jury for the handling of documents classified in sea-a-lakehis mansion in the south of Floridaafter they had left the White House, because their lawyers said it was not necessary, since they already knew them.

As he left the court, dozens of supporters greeted the former president with banners, while a protester in a prisoner’s outfit who stood in front of the procession was reduced by the local police.

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Waltine Nautaa Trump aide, who is also accused in the same case, was not prosecuted this Monday because he did not have a lawyer who could represent him in this court and a new hearing was scheduled for June 27 before the judge Edwin Torres.

The former president attributes the accusation led by the special prosecutor jack smith to a “great witch hunt” launched by the current US president, the Democrat Joe Bidenand that responds to a campaign of “election interference”, as he reiterated today on his social network Truth.

Of the 37 charges to which Trump must respond, 31 correspond to the offense classified as deliberate withholding of national defense information, according to the document containing the accusation.

Source: Elcomercio

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