{"id":1980013,"date":"2023-07-21T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-new-trial-date-a-major-setback-for-doj\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:46:02","slug":"trump-campaign-says-new-trial-date-a-major-setback-for-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-new-trial-date-a-major-setback-for-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign Says New Trial Date a \u2018Major Setback\u2019 for DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-says-new-trial-date-a-major-setback-for-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0722\/01c19e8f-66be-4921-b6fd-b3f53302e41c\/audio.mp3?length=3974733&#038;duration=331\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign on July 21 called the new May 2024 court date for his federal criminal trial a \u201cmajor setback\u201d to Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to begin on May 20, 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-sets-new-date-for-trump-trial-after-former-presidents-request-for-extensive-delay_5414053.html\">new trial date<\/a> was set earlier that day by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon following extension requests from both Special Counsel Jack Smith and Mr. Trump\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s order by Judge Cannon is a major setback to the DOJ\u2019s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process,\u201d a Trump spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement. \u201cThe extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrooked Joe Biden is losing and attempting to use his weaponized DOJ against his top political rival\u2014a disgraceful and un-American abuse of power. Crooked Joe will fail and President Trump will win back the White House for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the trial was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-sets-trial-date-in-trumps-classified-documents-case_5344153.html\">set for August<\/a> of this year. The special counsel, however, requested that the date be pushed back to December, while Mr. Trump sought a postponement until after the 2024 election. The final date represents a compromise between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeding to trial in August would deny both parties \u201creasonable time necessary for effective preparation,\u201d\u00a0Judge Cannon noted in the order\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.83.0_1.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Although the judge denied Mr. Trump\u2019s request to hold off on setting a trial schedule, she found\u00a0the government\u2019s proposed timeline to be \u201catypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, she reasoned that a longer delay would be required to ensure adequate time for discovery review and resolve any pre-trial motions or complications due to security clearance requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week trial will take place in a federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Witch Hunt\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the 37 felony counts Mr. Trump is facing over his handling of classified documents, he is also fighting 34 counts of falsification of business records in a separate case in New York.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to Mr. Trump, that tally may increase again soon. Earlier this week, he revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110735295720085796\">statement<\/a> shared to Truth Social that he had become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-received-letter-stating-he-is-target-of-january-6-investigation_5405674.html\">target<\/a> of Mr. Smith\u2019s Jan. 6 probe. Target letters typically suggest a grand jury is finalizing an investigation and indictments are imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now, Joe Biden\u2019s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who I turned down for the United States Supreme Court \u2026 together with Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Injustice, have effectively issued a third indictment and Arrest of Joe Biden\u2019s number one political opponent, who is largely dominating him in the race for the Presidency,\u201d the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said he received the news via letter on July 16 and was given four days to report to the grand jury.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, throughout all the accusations leveled at him\u2014of which there have been many\u2014Mr. Trump has maintained his innocence. The Russian collusion investigation and the two impeachment trials, he said, were all politically motivated attacks designed to keep him out of power. And the latest criminal charges, he added, are no different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis witch hunt is all about election interference and a complete and total weaponization of law enforcement!\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a ve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign on July 21 called the new May 2024 court date for his federal criminal trial a \u201cmajor setback\u201d to Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors. Scheduled to begin on May 20, 2024, the new trial date was set earlier that day by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon following extension requests from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1980014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}