The former president of the United States donald trump (2017-2021) pleaded not guilty this Thursday to the charges against him in Georgia for attempting to rig the election results 2020 in that state, in which he lost by a narrow margin to the current president, Democrat Joe Biden. Trump, who is running for the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election, already has pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal proceedings in which he is accused.

His lawyers filed this Thursday with the district court of Fulton (Georgia) a document in which the former president pleads not guilty to the 13 crimes charged against him and “freely and voluntarily” waives his right to be present at a formal court arraignment. The document, headed by the phrase in capital letters “President Trump’s Plead of Not Guilty and Waiver of Appearance at Arraignment,” bears the former president’s signature at the end, signaling that he agrees with what his lawyers wrote.

Arraignment of charges against Trump and the other 18 defendants in Georgia It was scheduled for September 6. and it was going to take place in a public hearing, that is, with the possibility of the press attending. However, since Trump already pleaded not guilty this Thursday, you will not have to travel to Georgia to appear in court.

To charge Trump and 18 of his former allies, the Fulton district attorney, the Democrat fanny willishas used the RICO law, known to be used against members of the mob and used to ensure that the leaders of a criminal association, and not just their subordinates, are held accountable.

The former president already went to Georgia a week ago to They will file him and take the mugshot. He was in the Fulton County Jail for just 20 minutes and was released on $200,000 bail. Trump is the first former president in US history to He has been charged and already accumulates four criminal cases. In addition to Georgia, he faces legal proceedings in New York for the irregular payments that he did during the 2016 campaign to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels over an “affair” they had had in the past.

Likewise, he faces justice in Florida for having taken classified papers to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021 and, finally, he must respond in Washington to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, in the that his supporters tried to disrupt the legislative process to certify Biden’s victory in 2020.