A lawyer for Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to fight against the “sad” accusation against the former US president who had just appeared before a judge in New York, an unprecedented event.
“The indictment itself is standard text… It’s really disappointing,” Todd Blanche told reporters. According to him, Donald Trump is “frustrated”, “upset” but “determined”.
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The former president pleaded not guilty to falsifying accounting records in a New York court. Released without judicial control, the billionaire will try everything to avoid the trial of a trial in January 2024, just a few months before the presidential elections in which he is a candidate.
Trump, the first US president to suffer such a fate, is the subject of 34 charges. He is accused of “orchestrating” a series of payments to cover up three embarrassing cases before the 2016 election.
In the packed courtroom of the New York court, the former occupant of the White House was shown with a closed face, a stern look.
He flew from New York aboard his personal plane to Florida, from where he will give a press conference from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, at 8:15 p.m. (02:15 a.m. Wednesday, Paris time), in front of to his faithful and his tens of millions of voters: his intervention will be disseminated in many media.
Source: BFM TV
