Former US President Donald Trump said Monday that marking March 4, 2024 as the start date of the trial in the case against him constitutes “electoral interference” ahead of next year’s presidential elections.
Through a post on the social network he founded, Truth Social, Trump accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, in charge of setting the date, of hating him, and vowed to appeal the decision.
Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a defense request to postpone the trial until April 2026, about a year and a half after the 2024 election, but also marked the beginning of the trial the former US president is accused of trying to overturn. 2020 election results. for after January, the month proposed by special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
“The public has a right to a quick and effective resolution of this matter,” Chutkan said.
If the date is met, the trial will take place in full calendar of the Republican primaries (in which Trump appears, for now, at the head of the polls, with a wide advantage over his opponents) and one day before “Super Tuesday “. “, a crucial voting day, when most delegates are up for grabs.
Trump was indicted earlier this month on four counts of conspiring to try to reverse the results of Democrat Joe Biden’s defeat in the 2020 election.
The federal election subversion lawsuit is one of four criminal prosecutions against Trump in this case that are being filed in a Washington DC court.
Special counsel Smith’s team has filed a separate federal lawsuit, accusing him of illegally withholding confidential documents at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, and refusing to return them.
This case has a trial scheduled for May 20 of next year.
Trump also faces cases in state courts in New York and Georgia.
Manhattan prosecutors charge him with falsifying business records in a case involving paying a porn actress to silence her in an extramarital affair.
Fulton County, Georgia prosecutors charge Trump and 18 others with conspiring to rig the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.
Trump appeared in a Georgia jail on Thursday in the case, posing for the first mugshot of a former US president in US history.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges, saying the investigations are politically motivated and an attempt to interfere to prevent him from returning to the White House.
Source: TSF
