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[July 22, 2023]
By Jacqueline Thomsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump's trial over his
alleged mishandling of classified documents will begin on May 20 next
year, according to a U.S. court order on Friday.
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Former U.S. President and Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the
Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. July
15, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo |
Trump's lawyers had resisted setting a date but said any trial
should take place after the November 2024 U.S. presidential
election, in which he is front-runner for the Republican
nomination.
A Trump spokesperson said the trial schedule "allows President
Trump and his legal team to continue fighting" the criminal
case. A spokesperson for U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's
office declined to comment.
Friday's ruling came from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who
sits in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Trump was indicted on June 8 on charges that he unlawfully kept
national security documents when he left office and lied to
officials who sought to recover them. He has pleaded not guilty.
Federal prosecutors had asked Cannon to schedule the trial for
December.
The case is one of several legal woes Trump faces as he
campaigns for 2024.
Trump is set to go to trial in Manhattan on March 25 on separate
charges that he falsified business records to conceal a hush
money payment to a porn star.
He said on Tuesday he had received a letter saying he is a
target of a grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn
his 2020 presidential election defeat.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Jacqueline Thomsen; Editing
by John Stonestreet and David Holmes)
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