The prosecutor who accused Donald Trump of manipulating the electoral results in the State of Georgia proposed this Thursday that the trial of the former president, and the other 18 defendants, begin on March 4, 2024.
The Republican tycoon was accused this Monday of trying to cause fraud in the results of the 2020 presidential elections in the state of Georgia, after investigations, led by prosecutor Fani Willis, which took place for more than two years.
The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney asked the court to set a March 4 start date for the trial.
Fani Willis noted that she chose that date so as not to interfere with other federal or state lawsuits against Donald Trump.
The choice, ultimately, will correspond to a judge, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The former president faces 13 charges, including violation of an anti-corruption law that, if confirmed, carries a prison sentence.
Also among the defendants are his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, as well as his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Trump had already received four charges for trying to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election, and in that process, special counsel Jack Smith proposed the start of the trial for January 2024, a few days before the start of the Republican primaries.
In New York, Donald Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business documents in a case involving pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, with whom the former president had an affair in 2006, and is expected to appear in court on March 25.
In Florida, the Republican faces 40 counts of theft and withholding of confidential documents and is due in court on May 20, a few months before the 2024 presidential election.
The former head of state has denounced a “witch hunt” to prevent him from carrying out his presidential campaign and has defended that these processes should be carried out after the elections.
Source: TSF
