Trump pleads not guilty to charges of trying to overturn 2020 election

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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges after being arraigned in Washington, D.C. on Thursday related to an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.The U.S.

magistrate judge overseeing the arraignment, Moxila Upadhyaya, set the next court date for Aug. 28, however said Trump will not be required to attend. He added that U.S.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will oversee the trial, is expected to set a trial date at that time.“This is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America,” Trump said before he boarded his plane back to New Jersey after the hearing, adding it was a “very sad day for America.”Trump was charged Tuesday with four criminal counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate those exercising the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.The revelations were revealed as part of a newly unsealed federal indictment that accused the former U.S. president of conspiring with six close allies to try and overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden and unlawfully block the transfer of power.This eventually led to the deadly Jan.

6, 2021, attack by Trump’s supporters on the U.S. Capitol. The indictment handed down by a special grand jury in Washington marks the third time this year Trump has been hit with criminal charges, adding more legal pressure as he seeks to return to the White House in 2024.But much like the 38 criminal counts he faces in the classified documents case — which alleges Trump withheld national security materials and misled federal investigators seeking their return — the election case headed by special