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Former President Donald Trump attends trial in New York on May 7, 2024, on charges of concealing hush money payments.
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Former President Donald Trump’s public defense against four different charges in four different jurisdictions is that they are a coordinated attack and political persecution, a double standard of justice. He says this is proof that.
If President Trump’s claims are disproved, it appears likely this week that three of the four criminal charges will not be brought to court by Election Day.
The other charge, generally considered the weakest case against Trump, resulted in a sordid and embarrassing moment for the former president. However, the facts of the case in New York focus on his efforts to cover up the extramarital affair allegations rather than his actions as president or his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and are a different story. It feels like something from the era.
Mr. Trump has maintained his innocence in all cases.
If Trump could concoct a conspiracy theory from the fact that separate grand juries in New York, Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., all independently approved charges against him, what does he think about the subsequent sequence of events? Would you judge?
Charge: June 8, 2023, with priority indictment to be filed on July 27, 2023.
Trial date: Indefinite delay.
Trump’s appointment of Eileen Cannon as judge in the Florida case doesn’t necessarily make sense. But Cannon has taken so long to return her sentence, angering critics who say she is pandering to President Trump’s request to delay the trial.
On Tuesday, Cannon moved his scheduled May trial date and did not enter a new date. With multiple unresolved issues in the federal case, legal experts are now considering special counsel Jack Smith’s case that President Trump mishandled classified data that he has refused to turn over to the National Archives. I have doubts that this will take place before November.
Ty Cobb, President Trump’s former legal adviser and current Trump critic, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday night that Cannon has so far lost in court.
“Frankly, I think it was always her purpose to prevent this from going to trial,” Cobb told Barnett. Cobb attributes the judges’ slow work to “a combination of bias and incompetence.”
Charge: August 1, 2023.
Trial date: Indefinite delay.
Another federal lawsuit, filed by Smith accusing Trump of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results and take away Americans’ democratic rights, is also pending in Washington, D.C., thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
First, the justices refused to quickly review President Trump’s dubious claim of “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution, instead allowing the claim to proceed through oral arguments before a panel of lower court judges. I wanted it.
But when that lower court rejected Trump’s claim of absolute immunity, the Supreme Court suddenly wanted to have its say. The conservative judges, three of whom were appointed by President Trump, took the more outlandish extremes of Mr. Trump’s claims in his hearing last month, such as the assumption that SEAL Team 6 would be ordered to eliminate political opponents. scenario), but they were intrigued enough to suggest that their decision would not simply allow the trial to proceed.
Whenever they are ready to issue it, that is. It might be June or July! If that happens, there will be little time left for the case to go to trial.
Charge: August 14, 2023.
Trial date: Indefinite delay.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ relationship with prosecutors is not necessarily connected to the allegations against Trump related to his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. But the impact of her decision to hire her predecessor is significant. My boyfriend is helping Trump.
The Georgia Court of Appeals announced Wednesday that it will consider Mr. Trump’s appeal of Judge Scott McAfee’s decision to allow Mr. Willis to continue.
Charge: Opened on April 4, 2023.
trial: in progress.
The sordid details of President Trump’s alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels were the last thing Trump wanted to see as he glared at Daniels in court Tuesday.
Trump’s lawyers may prolong their cross-examination of Daniels when the trial resumes Thursday as they seek to impeach his credibility. This is the upcoming battle between President Trump’s former fixer and convicted felon, Michael Cohen, and his boss’s lawyers, who claim Cohen violated campaign finance laws. This should be a precursor to the upcoming trial.
There may have been good reasons why federal prosecutors decided not to pursue the case.
The point is that despite all of Trump’s controversial actions as president and his apparent attempts to change the outcome of the election, even if he is found guilty, it will still be a hotly contested election that will decide this election. That means it may not sway the state’s minority voters. .
The charges against Mr. Trump are not part of a grand conspiracy to interfere in elections. They are part of a slow justice system that, thanks to donors, has the funds to pay for armies of lawyers who cover up their jobs. Mr. Trump’s long-standing strategy has been to delay the trial, get elected, and then work to get it over with. From that perspective, this was a good week for him.
