The date is clear: Trump is taken to court

Judge Aileen M. Cannon announced her decision on the trial start date in the case in which Trump was accused of confidential documents.

Noting that the trial process will begin on May 20, 2024, Cannon said the court rejected requests by Trump’s lawyers not to set a hearing date at this stage.

On the other hand, Cannon shared the opinion that the date proposed by the Ministry of Justice is unusually fast and incompatible with the guarantee of a fair trial.

It is claimed that Trump’s legal team can make several demands during this process and push back the hearing date.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CASE?

At the preliminary hearing in the case held on July 19, the prosecution’s lawyers moved their request for the trial to begin in December. Trump’s lawyers, on the other hand, insisted that because of the 2024 presidential election, the proceedings should be postponed until after the election date.

While Trump’s side argued that the trial would not be fair during the electoral process, the prosecution asserted that if Trump, who currently leads by a clear margin among the Republican candidates, wins the election, he can use his presidential authority to dismiss himself from the case or have the attorney general drop it.

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE TRUMP MANSION

Former US President Donald Trump’s home in Florida was raided by FBI agents on the morning of August 8, 2022 for an investigation into “confidential documents.”

Describing the raid and ongoing investigations as “political,” Trump specifically requested that the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago be reviewed by an “independent arbitrator or special judge.”

Former Attorney General Jack Smith, who was appointed special expert in the “confidential documents” investigations and the “January 6 congressional raid” against Trump, accused Trump of carrying classified documents with him when he left his White House post and hindering federal investigations.

Trump, who appeared before the Miami judge on June 13 after the indictment and went down in history as the “first former president to appear in court a second time as part of a federal investigation,” also denied 37 separate charges against him.

Trump had previously appeared before a judge in New York on April 4, accused of paying a woman a “shutdown” during the 2016 presidential election. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)