And she released the former president with minimal conditions. She read the four charges against him and accepted his plea of not guilty. JOHNSON: Yeah, the magistrate judge, Moxila Upadhyaya, gave Donald Trump a roadmap. Five people who waited overnight outside the courthouse actually got to witness history from inside the room yesterday. And even with all of Donald Trump's legal problems, it felt like a big moment to hear the clerk read out the case, the United States of America v. The special counsel investigation puts Trump at the center of overlapping conspiracies to defraud the government he once led to pressure state election officials and his own vice president to try to stop the vote certification and to deprive Americans of the right to have their votes counted in 2020. Did that come across in yesterday's arraignment?ĬARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: It really did, A. Carrie, of the three indictments Trump has received this year, this one is widely viewed as the most serious. She's on the line now to tell us more about it. MARTÍNEZ: NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson spent all day at that courthouse. Prosecutors say he conspired to spread lies to create an atmosphere of mistrust and anger that culminated in the Capitol riot. Inside the building, Trump pleaded not guilty to four felony charges stemming from his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. It was quite similar to what Trump used to say about Hillary Clinton. Outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., demonstrators had a message for former President Donald Trump.
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