Oop! A federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump‘s Jan. 6 election interference trial (via his Washington, D.C. indictment) has just set it to begin on Monday, March 4 — which is in the middle of the 2024 Republican Presidential Primaries, and a day before Super Tuesday!
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It’s reported that special counsel Jack Smith had requested for a January trial, while Trump pushed for a 2026 start date; however, neither men were obliged to. Instead, during a hearing on Monday (August 28), U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decided to set the trial in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries, and just one day before Super Tuesday — which is the traditional day for elections to begin in the United States.
In the same hearing, Judge Chutkhan heard arguments from Trump’s legal team and from federal prosecutors, all arguing on when they believed the election interference trial should be set. As mentioned special counsel Jack Smith proposed that the trial begin in January 2024, with jury selection beginning in December of this year. However, Trump’s team said the trial should actually be pushed back until April 2026, after the 2024 presidential election, clearly allowing him time to run for a second term.
Reacting to the arguments, Judge Chutkan said, “These proposals are obviously very far apart. Neither of them is acceptable.” After setting a date for March 4, 2024, in the middle of the Republican Presidential Primaries, the federal judge added that the prosecution’s proposal was too soon, and that Trump will just have to prioritize the trial around his professional endeavors; which is the same thing she’d tell any other defendant with professional obligations, (ie: an actor or athlete).
As we’ve previously reported, Trump is facing four indictments in New York, Georgia, Florida and Washington, D.C. In New York, Trump was indicted in March 2023 by the Manhattan district attorney on state charges related to a hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Trump’s plead not guilty.
In his Florida case, Trump was indicted in June 2023 by a federal grand jury in Miami for taking classified national defense documents from the White House after leaving office, and resisting to hand over the docs to the government. Trump and his aide Walt Nauta have pleaded not guilty.
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This new March 4 hearing pertains to the federal case brought against him in Washington, D.C., where a federal grand jury indicted Trump on four charges this month: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction; and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted. During his arraignment for the election interference case, Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges stemming from the Jan. 6 capitol riots and more.
In Trump’s Georgia case, he was indicted by an Atlanta-based grand jury on August 14, along with 18 others, on state charges stemming from their alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral loss. The Georgia case makes four indictments, and Trump has maintained his innocence in this case as well.
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