{"id":2004255,"date":"2023-08-17T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attempts-to-push-federal-trial-in-d-c-back-until-2026\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:47:59","slug":"trump-attempts-to-push-federal-trial-in-d-c-back-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attempts-to-push-federal-trial-in-d-c-back-until-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks to delay federal trial in D.C. until 2026."},"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\">20<\/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-attempts-to-push-federal-trial-in-d-c-back-until-2026%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=2004255&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 Donald Trump Seeks Delay \u2064in Federal Trial<\/h2>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is seeking to push the start date of his federal trial \u200bin Washington, \u2063D.C., over his alleged \u200befforts to\u2063 overturn\u2064 the results of the 2020 \u2063presidential election to\u2062 April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Special Counsel\u2062 Jack Smith\u2019s \u200bteam requested\u200d that \u200bU.S. District Judge\u2062 Tonya\u200b Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, allow jury selection to\u2063 begin in December \u200dof \u2062this year and that the trial start in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Senior assistant\u2064 special counsel Molly\u200d Gaston wrote in a filing to the court that \u2064the January start date \u201cwould vindicate the public\u2019s\u200b strong interest in\u200b a speedy trial\u2014an \u2064interest guaranteed \u200bby the Constitution and federal\u200d law in\u2064 all cases, but of particular significance here, where the defendant, \u200ba former president, is charged with conspiring to overturn \u200bthe legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, obstruct \u2062the certification of the election results, and discount citizens\u2019 legitimate votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s legal team countered in \u2063their filing on Thursday \u200dnight by requesting \u2062that the \u2064case be \u200dpushed back until \u201cthe April 2026 trial calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump also guesstimates it will take him 4-6 weeks to present his defense, same estimate \u200das prosecution,\u200b which means we&#8217;re looking at a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attempts-to-push-federal-trial-in-d-c-back-until-2026\/\" title=\"Trump seeks to delay federal trial in D.C. until 2026.\">roughly estimated 14-week \u200ctrial<\/a>, when you factor in jury selection. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WLyWQsdQ1L\">https:\/\/t.co\/WLyWQsdQ1L<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/urHndTVAMR\">pic.twitter.com\/urHndTVAMR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyledcheney\/status\/1692308084075454645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Indictment \u200cand Charges<\/h3>\n<p>Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-grand-jury-indicts-trump-over-alleged-efforts-to-overturn-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicted<\/a> in the case at the start of the\u2062 month on charges of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States,\u200c Conspiracy to Obstruct \u200can Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to\u2062 Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain\u200c in power,\u201d the indictment began. \u201cSo for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative \u2063fraud in the election\u2063 and that\u200b he had actually won. These claims were false, and \u200bthe Defendant knew that they were false. But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated \u200bthem anyway \u2014 to make his\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j6-committee-seeks-to-criminalize-republican-fundraising\/\" title=\"J6 Committee Seeks To Criminalize Republican Fundraising\">knowingly false claims<\/a> appear \u2062legitimate, create\u2062 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-grand-jury-indicts-trump-over-alleged-efforts-to-overturn-election\/\" title=\"Trump indicted by Federal Grand Jury for alleged election interference.\">intense national atmosphere<\/a> of mistrust \u200cand\u200d anger, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-key-takeaways-from-john-durhams-first-public-testimony-on-trump-russia-report\/\" title=\"Key takeaways from John Durham's first public testimony on Trump-Russia report:\">erode public faith<\/a> in the \u2062administration of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The indictment \u2062says that Trump had every right to make false claims\u200c about the election and to\u200c challenge the results of the election. It \u2063says that the charges were related to specific actions that Trump took beyond \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-woman-whose-mother-died-in-ny-nursing-home-says-nbc-news-blocked-her-mentioning-cuomos-name\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious Woman Whose Mother Died In NY Nursing Home Says NBC News Blocked Her Mentioning Cuomo\u2019s Name\">making false claims<\/a> and challenging the \u200bresults in court.<\/p>\n<h3>Judge\u2064 Chutkan&#8217;s Stance<\/h3>\n<p>Chutkan\u200b has made clear that she will not \u2063give Trump any kind of special \u2063treatment and that he will be expected to \u200bbehave like any other criminal defendant. She \u200chas also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-issues-protective-order-in-trump-j6-case-he-has-restrictions-like-every-other-criminal-defendant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> that \u200dshe will \u2062not let politics \u200binterfere in the case and she considers his presidential \u2063campaign as\u2063 \u201ca day job,\u201d no different than\u200c any other defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump wants to delay his federal trial in Washington, D.C., regarding his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. He aims to move the trial start date to April 2026. Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team has asked Judge Tonya Chutkan, who is handling the case, to permit jury selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2004256,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2004255","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}