Our washington correspondent, sean dilley, reports. We love trump hes the first president to be charged with a federal crime and if previous cases are anything to go by, Donald Trumps 30 indictment is only likely to boost popularity with republican voters. The charges he faces though are serious. The 45 Page Indictment accuses the former president of knowingly spreading false claims about election fraud, to trick and persuade states in helping him overturn the Election Results. Helping him overturn the Election Results. The attack on our nations Election Results. The attack on our nations i Election Results. The attack on our nations i january Election Results. The attack on our nations ijanuary six, our nations ijanuary six, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. It is described in indictment, it was fuelled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and cer
The arraignment, that is when the defendant appears for the first time has a charges read and is entering a plea, that would normally be 70 days so theoretically that would be in october but very theoretically. they can certainly say they are ready to go to trial but looking at the unrelated, another case that is a federal case, prosecuted byjack another case that is a federal case, prosecuted by jack smith, case, prosecuted byjack smith, the team of donald trump says they need time to prepare for they need time to prepare for the evidence and the judge on the evidence and the judge on the other case agreed to that. donald trump and his team attempted to delay that until after the election in november next year but the prosecution said they want to crack on with it as early as december this year and a judge, almost like solomons baby, had to say hang on a minute, one timescale is unrealistic and so is the other and she set the trial date in the mar a lago classified documents case for