Trump leaves New Jersey for Washington DC for arraignment

The former president of the United States donald trump (2017-2021) left his golf club in Bedminster (New Jersey) this Thursday to travel to Washington DC, where he is summoned at 4:00 p.m. local time (20:00 GMT) to read the charges against him. charged for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 elections.

The 77-year-old Trump caravan of vehicles left the golf club around 1:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. GMT) to board a plane that will head to the Ronald Reagan airport in the US capital.

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The former president has to appear this Thursday before the judge Moxila Upadhyaya in the federal court of the District of Columbia, where Washington is located, for the reading of the charges.

The ex-president is accused of four counts: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights.

For the first of those accusations He could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison, for the second and third twenty years in prisonrespectively, and for the fourth, ten years.

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It is foreseeable that Trump plead not guilty, as he has done in the two previous criminal charges he has received.

Trump is charged in New York for an alleged bribery of the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, in the 2016 election campaign to buy his silence and in Florida for illegally taking and keeping classified White House documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

Source: Elcomercio

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