Special Counsel Jack Smith has proposed a new trial date for the classified documents case being heard in a federal court in South Florida.
Jack Smith was indicted on 37 federal charges in Miami in June on charges that he legally stored presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago home, which was protected by Secret Service agents.
Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other procedural offenses stemming from his conversations with his attorney.
In July, Jack Smith charged Trump with three additional charges in the investigation into secret documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. The superseding indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Trump was part of a scheme to delete security footage from the Mar-a-Lago resort.
The classified documents trial was scheduled to begin May 20, but Jack Smith requested that the trial begin July 8 in a court filing Thursday.
This new proposed date of July 8 is the week before the RNC (more election interference) convention.
President Trump on Thursday requested that the classified documents trial begin on August 12.
BREAKING: Jack Smith proposes new trial date in Florida of *July 8* pic.twitter.com/LTKwprj0T5
– Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 29, 2024
CNN reported:
Special counsel Jack Smith and lawyers for former President Donald Trump proposed moving the trial in the classified documents case to later this summer in court filings Thursday.
Smith said he believes Trump and his co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, should stand trial on July 8.
Lawyers for the three defendants proposed that Trump and de Oliveira's trial begin on August 12, while Naota's trial begins on September 9.
However, Trump's lawyers reiterated that they believe the former president cannot get a fair trial before the November election, and highlighted political dates in their filings where they say the former president needs to be on the campaign trail such as the Republican National Convention.
Meanwhile, Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case in D.C. is on life support after the Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump's immunity argument.
