Former President Donald Trump pleaded “not guilty” Thursday to the latest round of federal charges against him from the Department of Justice.
The former president was arraigned in a Washington, D.C., federal courtroom over a four-count indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith handed down on Tuesday. Trump appeared in court Thursday while President Joe Biden remains on a Delaware vacation amid growing scandals surrounding the Biden family business ventures.
“Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION. UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social ahead of the proceedings. “We are a Nation in decline. MAGA!!!”
Smith charged Trump with a series of crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy against rights, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding. Ultimately, the charges are an attack on political speech.
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The timeline of this week’s indictment follows a steady routine of Trump charges being unveiled just after new revelations drop about Biden family business schemes.
Trump is now facing 78 charges across three investigations while he maintains a comfortable lead in the Republican presidential primary.
“I NEED ONE MORE INDICTMENT TO ENSURE MY ELECTION,” Trump joked on Truth Social Thursday morning.
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