Trump inaugurates his judicial year
Donald Trump is not going to be bored this year. Determined as he is to return to the White House, he will have to share the campaign with appearances before judges in several states and, on four occasions, which offers greater discomfort and risk, before a federal court. This Monday he opened his appearances, the so-called "The Trump Trials", in Georgia and Florida, where the preparatory procedures await him, which in the United States are much more cumbersome than in Spain, from accrediting witnesses to forming the juries that will be the ones to declare guilt or innocence.
In the state of Georgia, he faces thirteen state charges for the manoeuvres he carried out until a few days ago, first to falsify the vote count in the last elections and, since then, to repeatedly accuse his adversary Joe Biden of illegitimacy to be invested in 2021 and hold the presidency. He is convinced that it has all been a fraud which, to make matters worse, has the support of a large group of unconditional fanatical followers, who both acclaim him and cause frequent street incidents that have caused victims and destruction.
In Florida, he faces 40 charges, including a federal indictment, mostly related to the seizure of classified documents that he took with him when he left the Oval Office and were discovered by FBI agents who, after well-founded suspicions, searched his sumptuous Mar - a - Lago residential complex in Palm Beach, where he kept them hidden.
In New York State, there are thirty-four indictments, most of them related to his involvement in the attempted coup on Capitol Hill and some of them in federal court. All these proceedings are occupying dozens of judges and prosecutors as well as hundreds of lawyers who will try to defend him in exchange for million-dollar fees. The ex-president is sparing no expense to clear himself of so many accusations. None of his forty-four predecessors went through anything like this.
But far from worrying about the consequences of some of these trials and the division he is creating among Republican senators and congressmen, Trump continues to campaign, touring the states and increasingly enthusiastic about the reception his fans give him when they come to his rallies where they hail him as president and make campaign finance donations. He has called for the trials to be delayed until after the election in November 2024, but some judges have already set trial dates in the middle of the campaign.