Donald Trump will be tried on May 20, 2024, in the middle of the campaign for the presidential elections in the United States

The judge Aileen Cannon established that the trial of the former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021) for the classified documents found in his home in Florida begins on May 20, 2024, that is, when there will be just over 6 months left for the presidential elections in this country.

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Trump is a candidate for the Republican nomination with a view to being the one to face the current president at the polls Joe Biden in the general elections of November 2024 and his defense had asked the Canon postpone it without date until after that electoral date.

In a judicial document incorporated this Friday into the summary of the case, the judge Canon He also ordered that a hearing be held on May 14, 2024 to discuss the schedule and other details of the trial, which was initially scheduled to begin on August 14.

The prosecution had request to delay it to December 11 and also requested the judge Canon that he did not accept the defense proposal to leave the trial for once the electoral process was finished.

Several press commentators pointed out that if Trump If he won the 2024 election without the trial yet taking place, he could move to annul the process.

The trial will be held in the federal courts of Fort Piercea city about 200 kilometers north of Miami where Canon exercises her position as judge, for which she was precisely nominated by Trump in 2020, when he was president.

With Trump will sit in the dock Waltine Nautawho was his assistant in the White House and remained at the service of the former president when he left the White House in January 2021.

Both, who pleaded not guilty before the judge Canonare accused of retention and concealment of classified documents, in addition to other related crimes, which are punishable by prison terms.

Trump now faces another possible criminal prosecution for crimes related to the seizure of Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of his followers who wanted to prevent the victory of today’s president from being certified Joe Biden after the 2020 elections.

the special prosecutor jack smith communicated to Trump by letter that is the subject of an investigation for that reason by a grand jury sitting in Washington.

Trump claims to be a victim ofinstrumentalization” of the judiciary by the Government of Biden to prevent him from reaching the White House again.

Source: Elcomercio

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