The court did not arrest Donald trump in the case of the storming of the Capitol

The federal court of the metropolitan American District of Columbia in Washington did not arrest former US President Donald Trump. The court made this decision following the results of the first hearings in the case of the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, which ended in the death of five people.

The ex-president pleaded not guilty to all four counts. He was released on a promise to appear at the next court hearing. As in the other case over the storage of classified documents, Trump is prohibited from communicating with witnesses except through lawyers. “If you do not meet any of the conditions of your release, a warrant may be issued for your arrest,” Justice of the Peace Moxila Upadhyaya told Trump. broadcasts Associated Press). The meeting is scheduled for August 28th.

Trump called the current criminal case “political” after the trial. “What is happening is the persecution of a political opponent. This is a very sad day for America. We cannot allow this to happen in America. It’s the pursuit of a man who’s far ahead [президента США Джо] Biden,” Trump said before he boarded his plane back to New Jersey (Associated Press broadcast quote).

Similarly, the ex-president was not arrested after two other subpoenas: in the case of bribery of $ 130,000 for porn actress Stormy Daniels and subsequent concealment of financial statements on April 4, and also in the case of keeping secret documents in his residence in Florida on June 13. At the same time, each time before being called to court in all three cases, Trump warned his supporters about the threat of arrest.

On August 2, a third charge was brought against Trump, which is related to the storming of the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021. As a result of the incident, five people died. The charge of storming the Capitol includes four counts: “conspiracy to deceive the United States” (following the results of the November 2020 elections, when Trump claimed to have won them. – Vedomosti), “conspiracy to falsify witness statements”, “conspiracy against rights of American citizens”, “obstruction and attempted obstruction of proceedings”.

The court did not insist on the arrest, since the prosecutor’s office did not ask for it. And she didn’t ask for Trump’s arrest, since in the United States this preventive measure is given mainly in cases where there was direct direct violence or the case involves drugs, lawyer Igor Slabykh, a practicing lawyer in the United States, explained to Vedomosti. Despite the fact that formally the case is connected with the events of January 6, 2021, where violence took place, up to human casualties, the ex-president cannot be directly blamed for the storming of the Capitol, he continues. On the contrary, Trump is accused of non-violent actions – “plotting against the United States”, “deception”, etc.

Prior to the meeting, Trump’s lawyer Alina Khabba actually revealed the strategy that her client will use: although many said that the ex-president’s elections were lost, a significant proportion of public opinion then, in November 2020, stated the opposite, pointing to violations that actually took place. “Therefore, Trump, as the current presidential candidate at that time, agreed with this significant part of the arguments, and did not mislead the state, citizens and did not manipulate public opinion,” Slabykh summed up the ex-president’s defense position in this process.

The second point of Trump’s defense will be that after the 2020 elections, when making public assessments of their results, he acted based not only on his own fabrications, but on the advice of his own lawyers. They also argued that then Vice President Mike Pence had the right not to certify the election as legal and valid, the lawyer concluded.