Trump Enters Not Guilty Plea In 2020 Election Subversion Case

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump, appearing in federal court in Washington, D.C., said he was not guilty of federal charges alleging he conspired to overturn the 2020 election results. The judge has set Aug. 28 as the first hearing in the case and said that Trump does not need to appear. Trump has agreed not to discuss the case with any witness.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Tiffany in Gainesville, Florida. I am doing nothing exciting and I am
0:06.0	nowhere special. I'm just at my house, avoiding making dinner. This podcast was
0:10.5	recorded at 518 Eastern Time on Thursday, August 3rd, 2023. Things may have
0:16.8	changed by the time you hear it. Okay, here's a show.
0:22.7	That sounds joyful. Yeah, I hope tomorrow I can be doing what Tiffany's doing
0:27.6	today. Yeah, fingers crossed. Hey there, it's the MPR Politics podcast. I'm
0:32.4	Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Frank O'Donia as I cover the White House.
0:36.4	And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. Donald Trump entered
0:40.6	not guilty pleas to the four charges he faces over his conduct around January
0:45.4	6th and the 2020 presidential election. That happened just an hour or two ago in
0:50.1	a courtroom in Washington, DC. Carrie, why don't you start off? Why don't you
0:55.0	tell us what happened? Sure, the former president entered about 10 minutes
0:58.8	before the proceeding was supposed to begin from back area of the courtroom. He
1:03.9	had on his kind of typical blue suit and long red tie and white shirt. And he
1:08.8	appeared pretty animated. He was talking back and forth with his lawyers
1:12.4	leafing through documents as he waited for the magistrate judge to show up. And
1:16.7	when she did, she basically gave him a roadmap of the proceedings. Trump stood
1:21.4	up a sworn oath and said he would plead not guilty to all four of these felony
1:25.9	charges that include conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to
1:31.3	obstruct a proceeding of Congress and conspiracy to deprive people of their
1:35.6	voting rights. And Trump, otherwise, was pretty quiet. There was a lot of back
1:40.6	and forth between the prosecutor, Thomas Windham and one of Trump's lawyers,
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