American judge: Trump does not have immunity
A court in the United States ruled that Donald Trump should be tried in court for playing a role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building in January 2021, and he does not have immunity. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, an appeals court in the United States ruled that Donald Trump should face a lawsuit for playing a role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building on January 6, 2021, and in this case he does not enjoy political and legal immunity.
While rejecting Trump’s claim that he has political immunity, the court affirmed that when Trump called on his supporters to march on Congress on the day of the riot, He has used his personal power as a presidential candidate. Presidents of the United States are immune from lawsuits only for official actions.
Judge Tanya Chatkan stated that there is no basis for this. US presidents cannot face criminal charges after leaving the White House. As the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election and the main rival of Joe Biden, Trump was the president from 2017 to 2021.
He The ruling said: The United States has only one executive president at a time, and immunity exists for each president as long as he is in power, and this position is not delegated to pass through times of crisis and danger.
Accordingly, since Trump is the first former or current president of the United States to face criminal charges, Judge Chatkan’s sentence is also the first official sentence in the history of the United States, during which the president He can face criminal charges like any other citizen.
Donald Trump said this Kurd, his words to encourage his supporters to “fight like hell” against confirming the results of the 2020 elections, were only a “matter of public concern” and related to his sense of official responsibility.
Trump’s spokesperson also pointed out that this order is restrictive and procedural and he acted on behalf of the American people on the day of the attack on the Congress. This sentence violates the former president’s right to freedom of expression. But Judge Chatkan rejected this claim of Trump’s lawyers.
=”RTL” style=”text-align:justify”>Meanwhile, the prosecutors stated that Trump’s claims put him above the constitution and violate the basic principles of the US constitution.
Currently Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate, is facing numerous criminal charges. : Trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his supporters storming the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents in his personal Florida villa after leaving the White House, paying an unethical movie actor hush money, and trying to change the results. Elections in the state of Georgia. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former US president is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in these cases and has not been found guilty in any of them so far.
But Donald Trump considers these accusations to be only politically motivated and with the aim of excluding him from the 2024 election, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate. Republicans for the 2024 election. He claims that raising these accusations only made him lead in the polls.
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