Former President Donald Trump on Thursday entered a not guilty plea to charges contained in a revised indictment brought by federal prosecutors that alleged he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The judge said she wouldn’t set a trial date yet.
Trump did not make an appearance at the court proceeding. Through his team of lawyers, he pleaded not guilty in a Washington federal courthouse as U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a status hearing in the case, more than a week after a grand jury returned a reworked indictment against the former president.
The jury charged him with the same four felony counts that he faced in the original indictment last year. That includes conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; conspiracy against rights; and obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct, an official proceeding….