The former US president will face charges for alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents during his presidency.
The trial against the former president of United States, Donald Trump, for irregular handling of classified documents during his presidency will be held in May 2024barely six months before the presidential election and in the middle of the electoral campaign.
Trump, who launched early as White House candidate in 2022, he will become the first former president in the history of the United States to face criminal charges, by May 20, 2024. The judge in charge of the case, Aileen Cannondismissed the prosecutors’ request that it be carried out in December of this year and, in turn, rejected the position of the Republican politician’s lawyers, who maintain the existence of “extraordinary challenges in the jury selection process” in the middle of an election year.
In addition, the lawyers Trump They add that the holding of the trial for those dates would limit “defendants’ ability to ensure a fair trial.”
Canon, appointed by Trump as a federal judge of Florida in 2020 directly from the White House, assured that the scheduled date will give the parties time for a good preparation where they should be analyzed more than 1.1 million pages belonging to classified documents.
“No one disagrees that the defendants they need adequate time to review this and evaluate it on your own,” he said.
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The former US president said he was indicted in the federal investigation for retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice after leaving the White House.
“This ongoing witch hunt is another election interference scam. They are cheaters and thugs!” Trump on the Truth Social social networkcreated by the tycoon’s own team after being banned from Twitter and Facebook.
The former president repeatedly denied wrongdoing and also He assured that he had the right to have some documents that it had already “unilaterally declassified without going through any formal process.”
Trump is up against 37 criminal charges that go from the deliberate withholding of national defense information until the conspiracy to obstruct justice, in the framework of the investigation against him, for the more than 300 classified documents found at his residence sea-a-lakein Florida.
Source: Ambito
