Former US President Donald Trump will be formally charged at a court hearing later for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Mr Trump, 77, is due to appear at a federal courthouse in Washington DC on Thursday at 16:00 EDT (20:00 GMT).

It is expected that he will attend in person and plead not guilty.

On the eve of the arraignment he slammed the case as proof of the "corruption, scandal, and failure" of the US under Joe Biden's presidency.

Mr Trump already faces two other criminal cases as he campaigns for the White House next year.

In this latest indictment, Mr Trump faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.

 

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The former president has visited Washington DC only once since leaving the White House. A queue was already forming on Wednesday evening outside the courthouse.

 

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Hope they yank his passport!definitely going to be a major tantrum blubber poor me fest after!

Waiting to hear the word "remand" . . .
 

I’m watching it now no demonstrations uh ho Donnie did the retrumplikans learn their lesson?or perhaps they don’t care?

Pence Says Trump Pushed Him ‘Essentially to Overturn the Election’
The remarks are some of the former vice president’s most pointed about what happened in the lead up to Jan. 6, 2021.

 

By Maggie Haberman
Aug. 3, 2023

“I don’t know if the government can meet the standard, the burden of proof beyond  reasonable doubt for criminal charges,” he said. “But the American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn’t just ask me to pause. They asked me to reject votes, return votes, essentially to overturn the election.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/us/politics/pence-trump-election-jan-6.html

https://archive.is/d14Hg

Edited August 3, 20232 yr by jerrymahoney

Why does he still look so orange?????????

21 minutes ago, Lucky Bones said:

Why does he still look so orange?????????

He has creatures living in his hair that excrete fluids . . .

 

BARR: “To me, it’s amazing that you read through the indictment and his behavior in that indictment. And it’s nauseating, it’s despicable behavior.

“Whether it’s criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office. And for him to be attacking a prosecutor who is investigating that with all the epithets, and so forth, which he has no basis for, as far as I can tell, is ridiculous.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/bill-barr-trump-what-matters/index.html

17 minutes ago, bendejo said:

He has creatures living in his hair that excrete fluids . . .

 

Fair enuff.

Hoping to evade those creatures.????????

This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed front-runner, and leading by substantial margins."

It's amazing how many deluded Americans still support this obnoxious fool!

24 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed front-runner, and leading by substantial margins."

Total rubbish! Trump is a one term loser with a severely damaged ego! Only one fool interferes with election results! Lock him up!

 

 

Edited August 3, 20232 yr by 2baht

30 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed front-runner, and leading by substantial margins."

Who needs evidence when you have a cult leader telling you what to believe.

17 minutes ago, 2baht said:

It's amazing how many deluded Americans still support this obnoxious fool!

Sure dident see any at this his 3 arrest arraignment more cops and media lmao ???? I wonder how long till he starts flapping his yap and digging himself in deeper!

2 minutes ago, Tug said:

I wonder how long till he starts flapping his yap and digging himself in deeper!

While ever he's breathing!

9 hours ago, Tug said:

Hope they yank his passport!definitely going to be a major tantrum blubber poor me fest after!

Aug. 3, 2023, 4:32 p.m. ET

It’s also no surprise that prosecutors did not require Trump to surrender his passport or attach any other serious condition to his release. The same thing happened in the Florida case.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/03/us/trump-arraignment-news

57 minutes ago, 2baht said:

It's amazing how many deluded Americans still support this obnoxious fool!

Literally nothing will change their minds, its truly a cult for the hardcore followers. Nobody can forget these remarks by their leader.

 

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters

Watch the fool break out the begging bucket and seek donations for the injustice that has been done to him!

3 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Watch the fool break out the begging bucket and seek donations for the injustice that has been done to him!

Just remember he's a fool who once got himself elected President and, the way things stand right now, it's possible he might do so again.

 

...  and, to me, that's the more frightening prospect than the outcome of any of his legal tangles.

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

Just remember he's a fool who once got himself elected President

Who could forget! One miserable term!

I like how he implausibly whined that Washington DC had fallen completely into a ruin like out of the Walking Dead since he left. As I understand it, it was 100% ghetto-free during his Kim Il-reign.

 

The drive in from the DC airport is perfectly benign. His sense of completely made up aggrievement knows no bounds.

And then, during the (1980 debate with Carter) , Reagan posed what has become one of the most important campaign questions of all time: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” 

 

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/are-you-better-you-were-4-years-ago

 

There still may be too many disillusioned and deluded persons in 2024 to scare the h. out of me.