WASHINGTON: A US court has ruled that the trial of former US president Donald Trump in Georgia over charges of election fraud will be livestreamed and televised, BBC News reported.
Judge Scott McAfee ruled that all the hearings will be available live on Fulton County Court’s YouTube channel. Though a date for the trial has not yet been set but it could be next year when Mr Trump is running for the presidency.
Trump and 18 other people are charged with a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 state presidential election results. The former Republican president, who faces three other criminal trials, has pleaded not guilty to the 13 charges he faces in Georgia.
All proceedings in Fulton County’s courts are usually livestreamed. However, the case will be the only one of Mr Trump’s four trials that will be broadcast and could be one of the most watched trials globally in recent years.
The former US president briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn himself in at Fulton County Jail and have his mugshot taken.
Prosecutors allege that Mr Trump pressured Georgia officials to reverse the election results in the state, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Central to the prosecution’s case is a phone call he made to the state’s secretary of state to “recalculate” the vote tally. “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” he could be heard saying on a recorded call.
