A vehicle carrying former President Donald Trump heads to the Alt Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, on March 1, 2024.
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a Florida federal judge on Friday to schedule his criminal trial on charges related to keeping classified documents after the November presidential election, saying it would be “improper” to do it sooner. “It’s fair,” he said.
According to NBC News, Trump’s lawyers said at the hearing that prosecutors’ new proposal for a July 8 trial start date is “totally unworkable” for Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. ” and said it was “impossible.” .
Trump, who was attending a hearing in Fort Pierce court, was already in New York state on March 25 on charges of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, his defense team said. He pointed out that he is scheduled to stand trial in court.
Lawyers for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump, told Judge Eileen Cannon that the former president had known for months about the hush-money trial date, but that the Florida case had been delayed for a long time. He claimed it was only now that he asked for it.
Cannon ended the hearing Friday afternoon without making a decision on a trial date.
Trump’s Florida lawsuit seeks to recover classified documents stored at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach after he left the White House in January 2021. He has been charged with obstructing government officials’ efforts to
He pleaded not guilty.
