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ActionJackson · Aug 19, 2023

ActionJackson · Aug 19, 2023

Lakhota · Aug 19, 2023

Lakhota · Aug 19, 2023

Lakhota · Aug 19, 2023

BREAKING: Indicted 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sets off alarms among legal scholars, demands that Florida Judge Eileen Cannon take “action” against Special Counsel Jack Smith in order to delay his trial to help his campaign.

It all started when Trump and his lawyers filed a motion telling Judge Eileen Cannon, “In its brief in the D.C. Case, the Special Counsel’s Office argues that a December jury selection and January 2, 2024 trial date before Judge Chutkan is appropriate, with full knowledge of the schedules of both President Trump and his attorneys between now and the end of that year, not the least of which includes preparing for the May 2024 trial before Your Honor.

President Trump opposes a January 2024 trial date in the D.C. Case for many of the same reasons articulated in President Trump’s July 10, 2023, brief to Your Honor in which we responded to the government’s revised scheduling order.

As the Special Counsel is aware, there are a multitude of complicated practical issues surrounding President Trump’s schedule, including a six-week trial beginning in October 2023 in New York in a matter brought by the New York Attorney General against President Trump and his companies, as well as an ongoing contested primary for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

This is in addition to preparation for a March 25, 2024, criminal trial brought against President Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. A Special Counsel committed to the fair administration of Justice should never have circumvented this Court’s orders under any circumstance, much less with full knowledge of the various issues presented with these multiple indictments against the leading Republican candidate for President of the United States.

Respectfully, the Special Counsel’s conduct necessitates appropriate action by Your Honor. In addition to blatantly ignoring this Court’s scheduled evidentiary hearing on December 11, 2023, the Special Counsel’s actions appear to be intentionally motivated to prevent President Trump from meaningfully preparing for either trial and to simultaneously prevent him from running a campaign for President of the United States.

We are separately seeking appropriate relief from Judge Chutkan, and we respectfully request Your Honor order the Special Counsel to explain its reasoning for arguing for a pretrial and trial schedule in the D.C. Case that conflicts directly with this Court’s current trial schedule.”

Simply laughable. Trump is furious that he has SO many criminal cases against him that he won’t have any time to campaign for president. Maybe Trump should have thought about that before going on a crime spree that has already earned him 91 criminal charges against him — and counting.

Clearly, Trump thinks that he’s still president, and can therefore demand special treatment from judges and courts. He forgets that he’s merely a private citizen now — and courts are under no obligation to accommodate a serial criminal who wants to run for public office.

Legal experts immediately set off alarms over Trump’s request, declaring that Trump has no right to interfere in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against him in D.C., which is an entirely separate case that Judge Cannon has no jurisdiction over.