The trial of Trump’s accusations of trying to change the results of the 2020 election has been postponed

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, A US judge has officially opened the court hearing the charges against President Donald Trump The former US president postponed the attempt to change the results of the 2020 election, which was supposed to be held next month.

order to delay the holding of this court which is expected It was then announced that Trump’s lawyers claimed in a lawsuit that the former president is immune from prosecution for official actions while in office. The case has been on hold in federal courts since December while Trump pursues his appeal.

Judge Tanya Chatkan set a new date for He did not set a date for this trial, but he said he would wait until the case comes back to his court.

Meanwhile, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals held a hearing on Trump’s immunity claim in the case on January 9, but has not yet ruled on it.

About two months ago, an appeals court in the United States ruled that Donald Trump should be imprisoned for his role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building on January 6, 2021. face a lawsuit and in this case he does not enjoy political and legal immunity.

While rejecting Trump’s claim that he has political immunity, this court confirmed Kurd Trump used his personal power as a presidential candidate when he called on his supporters to march on Congress on a day of riots. US presidents are immune from lawsuits only for official actions.

Judge Tanya Chatkan stated that there is no basis for the issue that the presidents of the United States then They cannot face criminal charges after leaving the White House. As the Republican front-runner for the 2024 election and Joe Biden’s main rival, Trump served as president from 2017 to 2021.

He wrote in this verdict: 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 ruling is the first official ruling in the history of the United States, during which the president can face charges like any other citizen. face criminal charges.

Donald Trump stated in this regard that 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 ruling 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.

Not long ago, following Jack Smith’s request to the US Supreme Court to review the political immunity of former President Donald Trump The court agreed to an urgent review of the matter, but later denied the request, allowing the request to continue in a lower court and speeding up the process of reviewing Trump’s claim of judicial immunity before the trial begins in March. , issued.     

In this petition, he stated that nothing in the US Constitution or the country’s legal custom supports the granting of absolute immunity to former presidents from criminal charges for wrongdoing while in office.

Smith argued that creating such a legal shield would put the president above the law.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is currently facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021. classified documents at his Florida villa after leaving the White House, paying a lewd movie actor a hush-hush fee, and trying to sway the Georgia state election. 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 yet been found guilty in any of these cases.

But Donald Trump raised these accusations only with political motivation and with the aim of removing him from the 2024 election contest.

while Donald Trump on January 23 in the primary elections within the Republican party in The state of New Hampshire defeated its rival Nikki Haley and won the state.

Trump also announced on January 15 the first intra-party Republican race in Iowa for the 2024 election. finished in his own favor and won in this important electoral field with a significant distance compared to his other competitors.

The US presidential election will be held in November 2024 to be Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls .

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