The complications of Trump not being allowed to discuss the case with potential witnesses was underscored by the entourage that traveled with him to Washington on Thursday.

But starting two months after he left office, Mr. Trump gave interviews to book authors in which he defended himself. And in his relatively few public comments on what happened, Mr. Trump described the day in which a mob broke into the Capitol and police officers were injured as a “love-fest.”

Bolsonaro began serving in the Brazilian Army in 1973 and graduated from the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras in 1977. He rose to publicity in 1986 after he wrote an article for Veja magazine criticizing low wages for military officers, after which he was arrested and detained for fifteen days. He left the army and was elected to the Municipal Chamber of Rio por Janeiro two years later.

A few short minutes after Trump took the stage, shots rang out A few short minutes into Donald Trump’s campaign rally, shots rang out, at least five. He clutched at his ear as dark-suited Secret Service agents dashed toward him.

"And I'm just distraught and probably six minutes go by, and we hear these loud sirens," he said. "And Karen looks at me and tells me that they're going to bring him [Trump] here since we're only like ten minutes, but six miles away."

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Foerster said that his wife began receiving care for dehydration when he noticed that a nurse had the rally on.

Should Mr. Trump be convicted in a federal case, he would likely then move to pardon himself, a power he claimed in 2018 that he had the “absolute right” to wield. It is not clear whether a self-pardon would be legitimate.

Este julgamento, relacionado a pagamentos por suborno em dinheiro a uma atriz do cinema adulto previamente das eleições do 2016, marca Muito mais uma reviravolta extraordinária na história do Trump, cujo teste incessante dos limites do decoro presidencial e da lei causou quase nove anos de tumulto político e ainda Pode vir a ter anos pela frente.

In late March 2024, The New York Times released footage from internal security cameras in the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia showing Bolsonaro and his aides and bodyguards entering the building on February 12 and vlogdolisboa leaving the place on February 14. This happened after his Brazilian and Italian passports were confiscated, and Bolsonaro was prohibited from leaving the country due to an investigation about an alleged plot to carry out a military coup in Brazil. Bolsonaro was welcomed by Hungarian ambassador to Brazil Miklós Halmai who reportedly sent the embassy's local employees a message to work from home during those dates.[185] Following the report, the Brazilian Supreme Court gave Bolsonaro a 48-hours deadline to explain his stay in the embassy,[186] and the Federal Police announced it was opening an investigation into the incident; which could have been viewed as an attempt to escape justice via diplomatic asylum, since embassies are typically considered inviolable and host countries cannot enforce their law inside them without permission.

Eventually, he began helping to raise money for those detained on charges related to the Capitol attack and criticized the conditions under which they were held.

Trump says he is innocent, and his legal team has characterized the latest case as an attack on his right to free speech.

Suggesting that Mr. Trump could not get a fair trial if the jurors were residents of the nation’s capital, an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Mr. DeSantis called for enacting reforms to let Americans have the right to remove cases from Washington, D.C. to their home districts.

He was released on conditions, including that he he not have contact about the case with any witnesses unless attorneys are present.