That is the trial date Federal judge Aileen Cannon has set on the docket…
She is gonna have a rough time holding that date….
Cannon, who got spanked for trying to help Trump in the first part of this case is gonna be undre a microscope in driving this case to the end….
Florida Federal courts ARE known for their expeditious running of their trials….
OF COURSE Trump & Co. are expected to do EVERYTHING they can to drag the case out into next years political primary season…
By the way?
Expect the Atlanta criminal indictment’s to come down against Trump and Co. around the same time…
The Manhattan DA’s case against Trump is set to run early 2024….
Trump has several big name Civil cases coming at him also before the year ends…..
Oh, and there IS a Jan.6 Federal case brewing and could Trump be charged Federally also in New Jersey?
Anybody thing this guy is gonna ace ALL of this?
Especially with him working in public to help the prosecutor’s make their cases?
Donald Trump’s criminal trial for hoarding military secrets at Mar-a-Lago has a starting date — Aug. 14 — but don’t expect it to hold.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon bookmarked the last two weeks in August for the historic trial, part of an omnibus order setting some early ground rules and deadlines for the case. That would represent a startlingly rapid pace for a case that is expected to be complicated and require lengthy pretrial wrangling over extraordinarily sensitive classified secrets.
But a review of Cannon’s criminal cases since she took the bench in late 2020 suggests this is standard practice for the Florida-based judge. She typically sets trial dates six to eight weeks from the start of a case, only to allow weeks- or months-long delays as issues arise and the parties demand more time to prepare. While her order on Tuesday starts the clock on a slew of important pretrial matters in the Trump case, it’s not likely to resemble anything close to the timeframe that will ultimately govern the case.
Cannon’s order comes after a weekend in which Trump continued to raise eyebrows — and certainly catch the ear of his prosecutors — with a Fox News interview in which he acknowledged intentionally withholding documents from the federal government, claiming he wanted to sift through them for personal items. It was the latest twist in a shifting and meandering narrative Trump continues to tell about his handling of the files, which will surely become part of the pattern prosecutors intend to highlight at trial.
Trump is also under indictment in Manhattan for allegedly falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to a porn star. The trial in that case is scheduled for March 25, 2024….
Trump Trial Setting Could Provide Conservative Jury Pool
“When Judge Aileen Cannon assumed control of the case stemming from former President Donald Trump’s indictment for putting national security secrets at risk, she set the stage for the trial to be held with a regional jury pool comprised mostly of counties that Mr. Trump won handily in his two previous campaigns,” the New York Times reports.
“She signaled that the trial would take place in the federal courthouse where she normally sits, in Fort Pierce, at the northern end of the Southern District of Florida. The region that feeds potential jurors to that courthouse is made up of one swing county and four others that are ruby red in their political leanings and that Mr. Trump won by substantial margins in both 2016 and 2020.”