{"id":1997276,"date":"2023-08-10T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T01:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-slams-jack-smith-court-date-request-for-timing-regarding-iowa-caucuses\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T01:55:38","slug":"donald-trump-slams-jack-smith-court-date-request-for-timing-regarding-iowa-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-slams-jack-smith-court-date-request-for-timing-regarding-iowa-caucuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump criticizes Jack Smith&#8217;s court date request, citing concerns about its timing with the Iowa caucuses."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-slams-jack-smith-court-date-request-for-timing-regarding-iowa-caucuses%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=1997276&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--><h2>Former President Trump \u200bSlams Proposal for Speedy Trial<\/h2>\n<p>Former \u200bPresident Donald Trump has strongly criticized a proposal from U.S. prosecutors to begin \u2064his trial in less \u2064than \u200cfive months, accusing them of\u2063 trying to interfere with the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. Special counsel Jack Smith has requested that the trial \u200dstart on January 2,\u200b 2024, just ahead of \u2062the crucial \u2062Republican primary. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDeranged Jack Smith \u200dhas just asked for a \u2063trial\u200d on the Biden Indictment to take place on January 2nd., just ahead of the important Iowa Caucuses,\u201d the\u200d current GOP front-runner\u200c wrote on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>, Truth Social, on \u2062Thursday \u2064evening.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith,\u2064 who is determined to ensure a &#8220;speedy trial,&#8221; recently indicted Trump\u2063 and \u2062arraigned him in a third \u200dcase this \u200cyear. The \u2062latest \u200bcriminal case\u200d also involves six\u2064 unnamed\u200b co-conspirators who have \u200cyet to \u2062be charged.<\/p>\n<p>In his \u200cproposed timeline, Smith included a date for a motions hearing, where requests to exclude\u2062 specific evidence are made. He suggested \u2064that by September 25, \u200bboth\u200c parties should have filed their written pretrial\u2062 defense motions. The hearings would then commence no\u200c later than November 13, with jury selection starting on December 11. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-slams-jack-smith-court-date-request-for-timing-regarding-iowa-caucuses\/\" title=\"Donald Trump criticizes Jack Smith's court date request, citing concerns about its timing with the Iowa caucuses.\">final \u2064schedule decision rests<\/a> with U.S. District \u200cJudge Tanya Chutkan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnly an out of touch lunatic would ask for \u200bsuch a date, ONE DAY into the\u200d New Year, and maximum Election Interference\u200c with IOWA!\u201d\u200b Trump exclaimed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, scheduled for January 15, have traditionally served as \u200ba crucial indicator of a \u2062candidate&#8217;s viability.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u2064further argued that any trial, which he believes should never take place due to his \u200cFirst Amendment rights\u200c and \u200dalleged\u200b Biden corruption, should only occur after the election. He also claimed that other indictments against Biden are fake and constitute election \u200cinterference.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who pleaded not guilty to four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-donald-trump-cleared-of-all-charges-in-the-new-york-tax-investigation\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Was Donald Trump Cleared Of All Charges In The New York Tax Investigation?\">criminal charges related<\/a>\u2062 to his\u2062 attempts to overturn the\u2062 2020 election, is \u200bcurrently\u200c under investigation on multiple other \u2064fronts. His\u2062 legal team has been attempting to delay the hearing\u2062 by rejecting a protective \u2062order from Smith, citing\u200c concerns about potential infringement on Trump&#8217;s right to free \u2063speech.<\/p>\n<h3>Protective Order Hearing Scheduled<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Chutkan has set a hearing \u2062on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-arrested-five-things-to-know-for-tuesdays-classified-documents-court-hearing\/\" title=\"Key points for Tuesday's classified documents court hearing involving Donald Trump's arrest.\">proposed protective \u2064order<\/a> \u200bfor Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more\u200c from The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump strongly opposed U.S. prosecutors&#8217; suggestion to commence his trial within five months, accusing him of attempting to overturn the 2020 election outcome. Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge to initiate Trump&#8217;s trial on Jan. 2, 2024, just two weeks after voters cast their initial ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997277,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1997276","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}