Pak Sahafat – A US federal judge ordered on Friday local time that Donald Trump’s trial in connection with the secret documents case will begin in May next year (2024).
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, US District Judge Eileen Cannon said on Friday local time that Trump’s trial could begin as early as May 20. The preliminary hearing of this case will be held on May 14.
The American CNN news network affiliated with the Democrats and a supporter of the current US President Joe Biden reported that if this schedule is maintained, Trump’s trial will be held in the middle of the 2024 election race for the White House and in the midst of several Republican election debates.
The hearing is a setback for Trump and his legal team, who wanted to delay the trial until after the November 2024 presidential election.
This year, the former president of the United States appeared for the second time in a court session in Miami to be tried on 37 charges related to keeping confidential documents of the United States, but this time he declared his innocence.
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In this indictment, the former and controversial president of the United States has faced a total of 37 cases, including 31 cases of intentionally keeping confidential national defense information.
Recently, Jack Smith, the special investigator of the United States, has announced in a letter to Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, that he is the target of his investigation on efforts to change the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The first trial of the controversial former president of the United States was held on April 4th on the charge of concealment and payment of the right to remain silent to an actor in pornographic movies before the 2016 election about his relationships. After about an hour, he was released from this criminal court with 34 charges.
The former president of the United States is accused of paying $130,000 as hush money to a porn actress named Stormy Daniels with whom he had a relationship before the 2016 presidential election, so that she would not talk about it.
American Media is also accused of paying $150,000 hush money to another woman named McDougal, a former Playboy model, so that she would not talk about her relationship with Trump in 2000.
Trump has been accused of “illegal conspiracy” to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election and attempt to cover up negative news. The indictment against Trump states: The former US president was involved in a conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election.
Trump’s lawyer described the indictment as “disappointing and sad” and added that the indictment shows that the rule of law is dead in the United States. Trump denied all 34 charges in court and declared himself innocent.