Donald Trump flew from his New Jersey golf club to Washington, D.C. on Thursday afternoon

for his arrangement at the E-Barrot Prettyman Federal Courthouse.

A crowd gathered outside with supporters and protesters often yelling over each other.

Then, just minutes before his motorcade arrived, Trump appeared before a magistrate and pleaded

not guilty to four felony charges related to his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

This is the same Courthouse, where more than a thousand of his supporters have been charged

for their role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

It is now Trump himself, facing charges related to his actions that day and in the days leading up to

January 6th. Here's Special Counsel, Jack Smith laying out those charges this week.

Conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters,

conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding.

How will the former president defend himself from those charges?

NPR put the question to John Laurel, one of Trump's attorneys for this case,

he described his clients' defense strategy this way.

It's a very straightforward defense that he had every right to advocate for a position that he believed in

and his supporters believed in.

Laurel said that even if the prosecution proves that Trump knowingly lied or that he had corrupt

intent, which Laurel does not believe they will, that it's still free speech that should be

protected by the First Amendment.

Political speech covers even information that turns out not to be true.

So it's all protected by its free speech, but at the bottom, the government will never be

able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, as I said, that President Trump did not believe

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