Trump seeks major trial delay, citing 2024 campaign and legal factors

[Zorro]

Former president Donald Trump’s lawyers invoked the 2024 presidential campaign in court papers late Monday, arguing that for a host of legal and political reasons, Trump’s classified-documents trial should be pushed far past the December timeframe proposed by the Justice Department.

In a 12-page filing, lawyers Christopher Kise and Todd Blanche claimed that putting the former president on trial later this year for alleged mishandling of classified papers and obstruction — even as he seeks the Republican nomination to return to the White House — would be “unreasonable, telling, and would result in a miscarriage of justice.”

The lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to set a date for the trial for the time being, while the two sides work through pre-trial motions and hearings. They suggested that to ensure a fair jury, the trial should not be held until after the presidential election.

Trump, the first former president ever charged with a crime, is the current front-runner in the Republican presidential field. He and his longtime aide, Waltine “Walt” Nauta, were charged last month in a 38-count indictment, setting the stage for a high-profile, high-stakes trial that is likely to test not just Trump’s popularity within his party and the country but also the criminal justice system’s ability to seek and win a conviction of a former president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/11/trump-seeks-trial-delay/

[republianmushroom]

1. And it begin, delay, delay and delay some more.

Soon it will be the bone spurs are acting up, can't walk to court house.
Cannon, poor guy, will have to recess, until they are better.

29 months and counting

[NowISeetheLight]

2. No Trial While President

Then if he is elected they will hold off another four years. BS... TRIAL NOW!!!

[EarlG]

3. If he is elected, he will end the case altogether

Since it’s a federal case he would claim the right to do that.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. We shall see how Cannon rules next week

The deadlines, hearings and rulings over the next couple of months should give us a good indication of how Cannon will proceed.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Trump advisers think the best solution to his legal problems is 'winning the election': NYT

TFG cannot win this case and so is trying to delay this case past the election. In effect, TFG's sole legal defense is to win the 2024 election.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crimes-2662261293/

Former President Donald Trump's advisers reportedly believe that his best shot at beating the multiple legal charges against him involves winning the 2024 presidential election.

The New York Times is reporting that "some of the former president’s advisers have been blunt in private conversations that he is looking to winning the election as a solution to his legal problems," which include both federal charges leveled by special counsel Jack Smith and state charges leveled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Although Trump would be limited in his ability to shut down Bragg's case, he could effectively freeze it while serving out his second term.

When it comes to Smtih's probe, meanwhile, he could order his attorney general to shut down the office and also issue a pardon to himself to bring the matter to a swift conclusion.

It's with this in mind, reports that Times, that Trump's lawyers are trying to delay the trial of the former president until after the 2024 election.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. +100!

And he ridiculously claims "election interference" by holding trials that would interfere with his "campaign... "