“An attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 elections.” This is the start date for Trump’s trial
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Posted on: August 28, 2023: 07:53 PM GST Last updated: August 28, 2023: 09:42 PM GST
On Monday, Federal Judge Tanya Chatkin set March 4, 2024, as the date for the start of the trial of the former US president. Donald Trumpon charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, bringing about one of the largest criminal trials in American history at the height of the election season.
Chatkin stressed that “the trial date is not determined according to the defendant’s professional obligations,” after she strongly rejected the defense’s request to postpone the date for two years, considering that the period is too long, according to AFP.
On the eve of “Super Tuesday”
It is noteworthy that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith had requested that the start of the trial of the forty-fifth US President on charges of conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections be set on January 2, 2024.
But the Republican billionaire’s defense attorneys have requested that the trial begin in April 2026, about a year and a half after the November 2024 election.
March 4, 2024 falls on the eve of “Super Tuesday,” the day when Republican voters mostly cast their ballots in the party primaries.
criminal charges
It is noteworthy that criminal charges have been brought against him Trump In 4 cases this year, two of them in Washington, the third in New York, and the fourth in the state of Georgia.
He is also scheduled to stand trial in March in New York for lying about sums of money he paid a pornographic actress to buy her silence before the 2016 elections, and in May in Florida for concealing classified government documents.
He is also facing, along with 18 other defendants in Georgia, charges of extortion and conspiracy to overturn the results of the recent presidential elections in the southern state.
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2023-08-28 17:42:30
