{"id":2004293,"date":"2023-08-17T21:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-doj-official-charged-in-georgia-case-opposes-march-trial-date\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T01:27:29","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-former-doj-official-charged-in-georgia-case-opposes-march-trial-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-doj-official-charged-in-georgia-case-opposes-march-trial-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DOJ official charged in Georgia case against Donald Trump opposes March trial date."},"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\">28<\/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-indicted-former-doj-official-charged-in-georgia-case-opposes-march-trial-date%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=2004293&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 \u2064DOJ Official Opposes Trial Start Date \u2063in Trump\u2062 Case<\/h2>\n<p>Jeffrey Clark, a former Department of Justice official \u2063and one of the \u206219 individuals\u200b charged\u2064 in the case against former\u2063 President Donald Trump in Georgia, has filed an objection to the proposed trial\u2062 start date. According to a court document filed \u2063on\u200b Thursday, Clark&#8217;s \u200cattorney argues that the suggested date of March\u2063 4, 2024, is \u2062&#8221;highly premature&#8221; as none of the defendants have\u200d been arraigned yet following their \u200crecent indictment.<\/p>\n<h3>Clark&#8217;s Objection and \u2062Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Clark, who\u200c previously \u200bserved \u2064as\u2064 the\u200c head of \u200bthe DOJ&#8217;s Civil Division under Trump, is the\u200d first\u200c defendant\u200d to oppose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-claims-musk-is-slow-walking-trial-over-44-billion-deal\/\" title=\"Twitter claims Musk is \u2018slow-walking\u2019 trial over  billion deal\">proposed start date<\/a>. The charges \u200dagainst him and the \u200cothers involve alleged \u200dviolations\u2064 of Georgia&#8217;s Racketeer Influenced\u200c and Corrupt Organizations Act\u2064 in their efforts to\u200c overturn the 2020 election results. Clark&#8217;s\u200b attorney also criticizes Fulton County \u2063District Attorney Fani\u200b Willis for not consulting with the defendants&#8217; counsel regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-doj-official-charged-in-georgia-case-opposes-march-trial-date\/\" title=\"Former DOJ official charged in Georgia case against Donald Trump opposes March trial date.\">suitable start date options<\/a>, suggesting that\u2064 she lacks\u200d knowledge of the attorneys&#8217; schedules.<\/p>\n<p>The court filing further reveals that Clark reserves the right\u200c to seek removal of his case\u200d to a \u2062federal \u200ccourt, \u200da move already being pursued \u2062by co-defendant Mark Meadows, Trump&#8217;s former chief \u2064of staff.<\/p>\n<h3>Clark&#8217;s Perspective and Charges<\/h3>\n<p>While Trump faces \u200b13 felony charges in the case, Clark is charged with racketeering \u200band criminal attempt to \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4th-trump-indictment-sparks-partisan-reactions\/\" title=\"4th Trump Indictment Ignites Partisan Responses\">commit false statements<\/a>\u2063 and writings. His\u200b attorney argues that Willis&#8217;s\u200b charges \u2064are based on a\u200b &#8220;turgid and\u2062 prolix conspiracy theory&#8221; and highlights the politicization of the case, citing the trial start \u2063date&#8217;s proximity to Georgia&#8217;s presidential primary, where Trump\u200c is currently leading.<\/p>\n<p>This indictment marks the fourth criminal case \u200cagainst Trump this year, including state charges in New York \u2062related to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-subpoenas-prosecutor-who-resigned-from-manhattan-das-office\/\" title=\"Jim Jordan Subpoenas Prosecutor Who Resigned From Manhattan DA's Office\">hush money scheme<\/a> in 2016, and federal charges in Florida and Washington, D.C., concerning classified \u2064documents and \u2063the 2020 election, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u2062worth\u2063 noting that while this \u2062is Clark&#8217;s first\u2064 criminal charge, he\u200d was referred\u200b to as an\u200b unnamed &#8220;co-conspirator&#8221; in the \u2064Washington, D.C., indictment. The special counsel \u200dalleged that Clark had a meeting with Trump at the White House on\u2064 January 3, 2021, without\u200b notifying his superiors, and accepted \u200can offer from Trump to replace the acting attorney \u2064general, granting him more authority to assist with election matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Clark, a former Department of Justice official and one of the 19 charged in the case against ex-President Donald Trump in Georgia, disagrees with the trial&#8217;s proposed start date. In a court filing, Clark&#8217;s attorney criticized Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis&#8217;s suggestion of March 4, 2024, as &#8220;premature.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004294,"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-2004293","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\/2004293","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=2004293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}