BREAKING: Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in federal court to a four-count indictment accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.
Trump entered the courtroom from a restricted area of the building, and sat with his hands clasped in front of him as he awaited the judge with his legal team.said after U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya asked him to identify himself for the record. He gave his age as 77, and affirmed he was not under the influence of any medication that could affect his ability to understand the proceedings.
He was also given the option of being arraigned remotely, via video link. However, he opted to appear in person, leaving his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club around 1 p.m. for Newark Liberty International Airport and a flight to D.C.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty However, because this case is in a different court district, Trump had to go through the whole rigamarole again. He then headed over to be arraigned in Upadhyaya’s courtroom, where he joined Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith and the prosecution team’s own security detail. In all, at least three different federal law enforcement agencies were guarding the group inside that building.A small number of MAGA protesters were outweighed by opponents.
Alina Habba, an attorney for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, took questions from journalists outside the courthouse and railed against what she called a political “witch hunt” that was turning the U.S. into a “third world country.” She reframed the indictment as merely an attempt to crush Trump's First Amendment right to question the veracity of the 2020 election, asking, “What did he do?”
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