Former President of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) was released after pleading not guilty to the crime. 37 charges against him in the case of classified documents found in his home in Florida.

Trump’s lawyers – who He didn’t speak and kept his arms crossed all the while – asking for their client to be tried by a jury.

Trump, the first president or former president in US history to face impeachment at the federal level, It was recorded through fingerprinting and photography. and then appeared before federal judge Jonathan Goodman.

Full reading of 37 charges was not carried out that he was indicted by a grand jury for handling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his South Florida mansion, after he left the White House because his lawyers said it was not necessary as they already knew about them.

Waltin Nauta, a Trump aide who is also a defendant in the same case, was not prosecuted on Tuesday because he did not have a lawyer to represent him in this court, and a new hearing was scheduled for June 27 before Judge Edwin Torres.

“We certainly do not plead guilty,” Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said in the courtroom during the hearing.

The US Attorney’s Office noted that Trump didn’t have to give up his passport They do not believe that there is a risk of flight, which means that he can freely travel even abroad, but asked the judge to take measures so that the former president could not influence potential witnesses.

Goodman, who is not the lead judge in the case but was acting as an off-duty magistrate, asked the prosecutor’s office to prepare a list for the case’s judge, Eileen Cannon, to make a decision about it.

Trump entered the courthouse through an underground tunnel shortly before 2 p.m. local time, leaving his hotel in the nearby town of Doral.

At the exit, his supporters could see him, even if through the glass of the car in which he was driving to the airport.

Before heading to Miami International Airport, Trump stopped at a famous Cuban cafe in Little Havana. where he was greeted by dozens of followers and journalists covering the moment they sang birthday greetings to the former president, who turns 77 tomorrow, Wednesday.

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At least 200 people gathered outside Cafe Versailles, the iconic site of Cuban exile in Miami, where a prayer was made for the former presidentwho ate nothing during his brief stay on the premises.

Shortly thereafter, Trump boarded his plane to take him to Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is due to raise funds for his campaign tonight to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

As for the trial, the former president links the indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith to the “great witch hunt” launched by current US President Democrat Joe Biden. for the purpose of “interference” in the election campaign”, as he wrote on his Truth Social on Tuesday.

Biden “did not participate. The president has always been very clear. The Ministry of Justice is independent“, – said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in response to a reporter’s question at a press conference held on Tuesday.

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According to the indictment, of the 37 charges that Trump is due to answer, 31 relate to an offense classified as willfully withholding information about national defense.

The rest for conspiracy to obstruct justice“corrupt” concealment of a document or record, concealment of a document in the course of a federal investigation, plan of concealment, and false statement and representation.

(According to information from EFE)