Former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York is expected to wrap up this month.
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With a Georgia court agreeing Wednesday to consider former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a crucial decision in his state election interference case, and a federal judge delaying Trump’s classified documents case indefinitely, at least two of Trump’s four criminal trials could now be pushed back until after the November election, a major win for the expected 2024 Republican nominee, who is on trial in his New York criminal hush money case.Key Facts
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday scratched a May 20 trial start date in Trump’s federal classified documents case, pushing the trial back indefinitely to “fully and fairly consider” pre-trial motions and preparations connected to the Classified Information Procedures Act.
In her decision, the Trump-appointed judge set the deadline for pre-trial matters as July 22, the absolute earliest date the trial could begin.
Trump secured another win Wednesday, when a Georgia Appeals Court agreed to consider Trump’s appeal of a lower court judge’s decision not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from his election interference case over an alleged conflict of interest stemming from a relationship with her lead prosecutor on the case.
While the case does not have an official trial start date, Willis had requested the trial begin on August 5—Trump attorney Steven Sadow has bemoaned that timeframe as the “most effective election interference in the history of the United States” since it falls just three months before Election Day.
