Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear before a magistrate judge on four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the presidential election . The E Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse has been the central vehicle of accountability for the January attack on democracy . Trump supporters who participated in the Capitol breach have also gone through the motions of a first appearance hearing that the former president will go through himself . Judge Beryl Howell recently stepped down from her role as the DC district courts chief judge a position that put her in charge of deciding many of the privilege disputes that ultimately allowed federal prosecutors to access key evidence in Smiths case . The charges Trump has decried the ongoing special counsel investigation and charges as politically motivated since he is the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination . The former president has decries the charges as being politically motivated . He faces four counts including conspiring to defraud the United States and to obstruct an official proceeding the latter a charge that has already been successfully been brought against rioters who breached the Capitol in the January rioters . Prosecutors are relying on a Reconstructionera civil rights law that prohibits conspiracies to deprive a person of their right to vote and have already successfully been successfully brought against the rioters in this case the latter . The defendants have already been successful in successfully been successful at a trial of rioters that have successfully been convicted of the rioter . The Capitol rioters. The rioters have been successful. They have already succeeded in the rioting. The defendants. The trial of the Rioters. have been convicted. In the riotors. have had a successful and successful. The Capitol. defendants. have succeeded in successfully. in the . defendants. of the . rioters’ actions. have already won against rioting in the
Donald Trump will appear Thursday in the same place over 1,000 Capitol rioters have
