A federal judge in Florida indicated Wednesday that she may delay the start of the classified documents trial of Donald Trump, pointing to the other criminal cases the former president is facing as well as the mounds of evidence his attorneys need to review.
Trump’s trial on charges that he hid classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructed government efforts to get them back is currently scheduled for May 20, 2024.
But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon appeared ready to side with Trump’s attorneys in their request to postpone the trial, saying she “has a hard time seeing how realistically this (current schedule) would work” even as prosecutors pushed her to keep the scheduled start date.
The classified documents case filed by special counsel Jack Smith’s team is one of four Trump is facing that could go to trial next year. Another federal case, also brought by Smith and charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, is scheduled for trial in March in Washington.
Trumpy-wumpy has too many chargie-wargies and his MAGA judge thinks he needs a wittle break…
STOP CODDLING THE FUCKER AND TRY HIM. IF FOUND GUILTY, GIVE HIM THE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENTS.
The judge has been overturned in the past by the higher court in her district specifically for a combination of trying to help Trump and incompetence during that effort. She got randomly assigned to one of the most important and large scale cases of national security violations and she’s doing everything she can to prevent Trump from going to trial. She’s been refusing to enter orders because those could be appealed to an actually impartial and competent court. She’s been delaying decisions and then going against established procedures. She’s never handled a significant case before and it shows in her ineptitude and partisanship.
The problem isn’t that he’s going to be convicted, it’s when. Even if she manages to delay the case for years, it’ll eventually be forced through and when it’s appealed to a judge who isn’t in the tank for the defendant, he’ll be convicted. The problem is the justice delayed is justice denied for the nation.
And if he dies of a fucking heart attack before convictions then people will
thinkknow they can do the same thing free of consequences.