Trump Lawyers Ask To Move Documents Trial Start Date Past 2024 Presidential Election | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to move the trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents until after the 2024 presidential election.

    The trial is currently scheduled to begin May 20, 2024, in Florida, but lawyers for Trump said that special counsel Jack Smith has not provided critical information for the defense to prepare for the trial. Trump's lawyers asked for the trial to be moved until mid-November 2024.

    "The Special Counsel's Office has not provided some of the most basic discovery in the case," said the motion from lawyers Christopher Kise and Todd Blanche. "Given the current schedule, we cannot understate the prejudice to President Trump arising from his lack of access to these critical materials months after they should have been produced."

    If granted, the trial would take place after the November 5, 2024 presidential election, which Trump could be running in. The former president is currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination and has climbed ahead of President Joe Biden in some recent polling.

    "The demands of the Special Counsel's Office must give way to the constitutional rights of the defendants and the interests of judicial economy," the filing said. Trump's team also said that insufficient accommodations had been made for them and the president to view the evidence.

    Prosecutors with the Department of Justice say that they will provide further evidence by Friday.

    "This production will include certain materials that Defendants have described as outstanding, including audio recordings of interviews and information related to the classification reviews conducted in the case," DOJ prosecutors said.

    Trump is accused of storing information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.

    Mar-a-Lago resort property manager Carlos De Oliveira and Trump aide Walt Nauta are also facing charges stemming from the document investigation. All three have pled not guilty.


    Trump, who has faced a number of federal and state prosecutions, has said that the document's case against him is politically motivated.

    "The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration's weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country," Trump said in his first speech since the document indictment against him was announced. "Many people have said that; Democrats have even said it. This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice."

    An investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents is still ongoing, but no charges have yet been brought.

poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

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Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

  No

  Not sure

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poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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