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Trump pleads not guilty to charges he sought to subvert 2020 election – Daily Montanan [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03  

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to four felony charges Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., after a federal grand jury handed up an indictment against the former chief executive.

Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, was released under the conditions that he must not violate federal, state or local law and must not communicate with witnesses about the facts of the case, unless in the presence of counsel.

The first hearing in the case is set for Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

Chutkan is willing to waive Trump’s appearance at the first hearing.

Trump entered Courtroom 22 inside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse at 3:52 p.m. and sat between his lawyers, John Lauro, to his left, and Todd Blanche, on his right.

For just over 20 minutes the former president, dressed in a red tie and blue jacket, sat folding and unfolding his hands and exchanging whispers with the attorneys while waiting for Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya to begin the proceeding.

Trump, 77, remained quiet except to deliver his name and age and state, “Not guilty.”

“I ask you to please listen carefully to the warnings I’m about to give you,” Upadhyaya said.

She remarked to Trump that the “most important” condition of his release is that he not break any laws, otherwise he could face a warrant for his arrest, risk being held pending trial or face a longer sentence.

D.C. Bureau reporters Ariana Figueroa and Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report.

Editor’s note: This story will be updated.

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