WASHINGTON For the third time in four months, Donald Trump was dragged into a courtroom Thursday and charged with felonies that could bring him years in prison, this time for his schemes to remain in power despite having lost the 2020 election that culminated in his violent Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.

The former president, technically under arrest yet again while the judge set the conditions of his release, pleaded not guilty to four counts of conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and unlawfully depriving voters of their civil rights.

Trump stated his name, his age, told the magistrate judge that he had not taken any medication that would affect his ability to understand the proceedings, and then listened to her explain that he could face a cumulative 55 years if convicted on all four counts. He then stood and pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Judge Moxila Upadhyaya then warned Trump not to speak about the case with other witnesses, before informing him that he would not be required to appear personally at his next court date, Aug. 28. That hearing will be before the U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has earned a reputation for handing out stiff sentences to Jan. 6 insurrectionists who have been convicted in her courtroom.

As he has for each of the previous indictments against him, Trump remained defiant and claimed prosecutors were only charging him to hurt his campaign. I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! he wrote on his social media platform early Thursday afternoon.

The arraignment took place at the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue, just eight blocks from the White House, where Trump is accused of having carried out crimes with at least six as-yet-unnamed co-conspirators, but whose identities likely include advisers such as lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.

The courthouse is also just four blocks from the Capitol, where a mob of Trumps followers, incited by a rally where he continued pushing his lies that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, assaulted police officers to enter the building in an attempt to stop the congressional ceremony to certify Democrat Joe Biden s win.