The judge sets the start of Trump’s trial for electoral interference for March 4, 2024, one day before Super Tuesday

the american judge Tanya S. Chutkanin charge of the process against the former president donald trump (2017-2021) for trying to annul the 2020 elections, decided this Monday that the trial date be March 4, 2024.

The magistrate, who will judge the case that culminated in the assault on the Capitol On January 6, 2021, he made the announcement after a hearing held in the US capital, the press reported.

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He thus dismissed the wish of the special prosecutor, jack smiththat the trial began in January 2024, on a date close to the anniversary of the storming the capitol.

Also the interest of the defense of the former president to postpone the process until after the next presidential elections, which will be held in November 2024 and in which Trump is still the favorite Republican candidate. They had requested that the trial begin in April 2026.

The chosen date, March 4, is one day before Super Tuesday, the closest thing there is in USA to a national primary, since more than a dozen states, both Republican and Democratic, will simultaneously hold internal processes to choose their candidates.

Tanya Chutkan was born in Jamaica and was nominated by President Barack Obama. (AFP).

The former president is charged in Washington D.C. four counts: conspiracy to defraud USA., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

For the first of these charges you could be sentenced maximum of five years in prison, for the second and third, twenty years in prison, respectively, and for the fourth, ten years.

The indictment describes that after losing the November 3, 2020 elections to the Democrat Joe Bidenthe then president embarked on a conspiracy to “reverse the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election″ with false accusations that there was electoral fraud and multiple stratagems.

This Monday’s announcement came a few minutes after it became known that the reading of charges against the former president and 18 other defendants in Georgia for trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in that state will take place on next September 6.

All 19 will then have the opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty.

Trump He has pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal cases in which he is also charged: for irregular payments to the porn actress stormy daniels to silence during the 2016 campaign his “affaire” in the past, for illegally taking classified papers from the White House upon leaving office and for assaulting the Capitol.

Trump went to Georgia last Thursday so that they would file him and take his mugshot. He was in the county jail fulton Just 20 minutes and he was released on $200,000 bail.

The prosecutor in charge of the case, the Democrat fanny willisHe proposed that same day to the court that the trial start on October 23 and not on March 4 of next year, as he had originally proposed.

The judge kept that date only for one of the defendants, the lawyer Kenneth Chesebrowho had requested a speedy trial, but the date of the rest is not yet known.

The beginning of the process against Trump for irregular payments to the porn actress stormy daniels is set for March 25, 2024 in NY.

The trial in Florida for the classified papers that he took from the White House to his mansion sea-a-lake (Florida) is scheduled for May 20, 2024, when there will be just over 6 months left for the presidential election.

Source: Elcomercio