Trump pleads not guilty to election conspiracy

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 05, 2023 12:25 am

(UPDATE) WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people.

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, entered his plea during a nearly 30-minute hearing at the same Washington courthouse where hundreds of his supporters have been convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

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