{"id":2007385,"date":"2023-08-21T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-says-trumps-proposed-2026-trial-date-exaggerates-case-difficulty\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:19:42","slug":"doj-says-trumps-proposed-2026-trial-date-exaggerates-case-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-says-trumps-proposed-2026-trial-date-exaggerates-case-difficulty\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ: Trump&#8217;s 2026 trial date overstates case complexity."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdoj-says-trumps-proposed-2026-trial-date-exaggerates-case-difficulty%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=2007385&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Special \u2063counsel Jack Smith strongly opposes former President \u2063Donald\u200b Trump&#8217;s request for \u2062a trial to begin \u200bin April \u20622026. According to Smith, Trump&#8217;s arguments are flawed, as he misrepresents the facts, \u2063exaggerates the\u200b amount of new evidence,\u200d and overstates the challenges of reviewing it effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s legal team has objected to Smith&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reacts-to-proposed-january-date-for-election-trial\/\" title=\"Trump responds to suggested January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-amy-klobuchar-introduces-big-tech-antitrust-bill-proposal\/\" title=\"Sen. Amy Klobuchar Introduces Big Tech Antitrust Bill Proposal\">trial date<\/a> for election case.&#8221;>proposed trial date<\/a> of January 2, 2024, \u200bclaiming that it denies them a fair opportunity\u200b to prepare. \u2064They \u2063argue\u2063 that the Department of\u2062 Justice has \u200dalready provided\u200c them with an overwhelming 11.5 million pages of documents, equivalent to\u2062 reading Tolstoy&#8217;s War and \u2063Peace cover to \u200bcover 78 \u200dtimes a day. They also cite Trump&#8217;s busy legal calendar\u2063 and\u200c the complexity of\u200b the case\u200d as additional reasons for\u200d their objection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related \u200cStories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/pence-says-he-was-unaware-of-any-broad-based-effort-by-trump-to-declassify-documents-5477430\">Pence Says He \u2064Was Unaware of Any\u2064 \u2018Broad-Based Effort\u2019\u200c by Trump to Declassify Documents<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/20\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/pence-says-he-was-unaware-of-any-broad-based-effort-by-trump-to-declassify-documents-5477430\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-proposes-april-2026-trial-date-for-2020-election-case-5474311\">Trump Proposes April 2026 Trial Date for 2020 Election Case<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/18\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-proposes-april-2026-trial-date-for-2020-election-case-5474311\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Department \u2063of Justice responded on August 21,\u200d arguing\u200b that a 2026 start date would violate the public&#8217;s right to\u200b a speedy trial. The final\u200b decision \u2063on the\u2063 trial date will be made by U.S. District Judge\u200c Tanya Chutkan \u2062during \u2064a\u2064 hearing on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump is facing four counts related to his\u200b actions in challenging the 2020 election results. This is the second\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-says-trumps-jan-6-indictment-serves-as-important-reminder-for-anyone-who-puts-himself-over-the-constitution\/\" title=\"Pence: Trump's Jan. 6 indictment a crucial reminder for those who prioritize self over Constitution.\">criminal\u200b case brought<\/a> against him\u2062 by Jack Smith, who is also\u200b overseeing a \u200bseparate case\u2063 in Florida regarding mishandling of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"aligncenter\"><figcaption>Former \u200dPresident Donald Trump leaves the Iowa State\u2062 Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on\u200b Aug. 12, 2023. (Madalina\u2062 Vasiliu\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Discovery<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Justice claims\u2063 that despite\u200c the \u200clarge volume of documents, approximately 65\u2062 percent of the first batch were already accessible\u2064 to President\u2064 Trump, and 25 percent came from entities associated with\u200b him. The most crucial documents were\u200b included in the initial batch, and a smaller second \u2064batch \u200cof \u2063615,000\u200c pages was sent on\u200c August 19, with 20\u200b percent originating from\u200b an entity linked \u200dto President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>These \u2063documents consist of President Trump&#8217;s tweets, \u200dTruth Social posts, court papers, \u2062campaign \u2064statements, hundreds\u200d of thousands \u200bof pages from the National Archives, and nearly 1 million pages from House \u2062committee investigations related\u200b to the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest. The DOJ \u2062also acknowledges \u200bthat there\u2063 are 100,000 duplicate pages, which were intentionally\u2062 provided\u200c in an organized and user-friendly manner.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ delivered the \u200bfiles \u2064to President\u2063 Trump&#8217;s \u2062legal team through a\u200d document review database, \u200callowing for electronic review instead of\u200d manual\u200d review. This significantly \u200creduces \u200bthe \u2064time required by Trump&#8217;s lawyers, \u200bas the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-says-trumps-proposed-2026-trial-date-exaggerates-case-difficulty\/\" title=\"DOJ: Trump's 2026 trial date overstates case complexity.\">database enables keyword\u200c searches<\/a>, \u200buser-tagging, \u2063and \u200dfiltering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defendant\u2064 can, should, and apparently \u200cwill \u200cadopt the benefits of electronic\u2064 review to reduce the volume\u200c of material needed to be \u2062searched and manually reviewed,&#8221; the filing states.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ\u200b emphasizes that the burden of \u200creviewing\u2064 the discovery \u2063cannot be measured solely\u2064 by page count, dismissing comparisons to the Washington Monument&#8217;s \u200cheight or the length of a \u200cTolstoy novel as distractions.<\/p>\n<h2>Scheduling<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200d DOJ argues \u200dthat \u2064scheduling conflicts with President Trump&#8217;s other \u2063cases\u200d can\u200c be easily resolved by\u200d starting this \u200bcase on a different day of\u200b the week. They \u2063propose adjusting the jury\u2062 selection start date to accommodate a \u2062motions hearing \u200cin Trump&#8217;s criminal case in the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s \u200dlawyers\u2062 had compared Jack Smith&#8217;s\u200c proposed case\u2062 schedule to other January 6-related cases, \u2063which had a median time of 29.4 months. Smith points out\u200b that the \u2063comparison\u200c is\u200b irrelevant, as\u200b it does not consider the time required for sentencing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith rejected former President Donald Trump&#8217;s plea for an April 2026 trial, stating that Trump&#8217;s arguments were flawed, with inaccurate statistics, irrelevant cases, and exaggerated difficulties in reviewing evidence. 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