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Trump pleads not guilty to 4 felony charges in 2020 election case

Federal Protective Services Police vehicles are staged outside the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Aug. 2, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Former President Donald Trump was arraigned Thursday afternoon after being indicted on four felony counts for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to four federal charges in connection with accusations that he engaged in a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the will of voters and stay in power despite losing the 2020 election, resulting in an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump appeared before Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, about a quarter-mile from where rioting supporters first attacked police officers and pushed down barriers on the west lawn of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Upadhyaya informed Trump of the maximum sentences for each of the four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights, and obstruction of or attempting to obstruct an

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