Trump Documents Trial Set For May 2024

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee, has rejected Donald J. Trump’s request to delay the trial for his classified documents charges until after the election but scheduled the court date for May 2024, months past the Justice Department’s request to begin in December. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1682397727668281344 From the New York Times:

In her order, Judge Aileen M. Cannon said the trial was to be held in her home courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., a coastal city two-and-a-half hours north of Miami that will draw its jury pool from several counties that Mr. Trump won handily in his two previous presidential campaigns.

Mr. Trump’s advisers have been blunt that winning the presidency is how he hopes to beat the legal charges he is facing, and he has adopted a strategy of the delaying the trial, which is expected to take several weeks, for as long as possible.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith filed a 38-count indictment against Trump last month charging him with illegally possessing at least 31 documents containing sensitive national security information. Read more at the New York Times. https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1682385749952417792