No trial date is scheduled in the Atlanta case. The classified documents case in Florida is set for trial on May 20, but that date could be moved. The Washington case charging him with election interference was officially delayed last month, with the Supreme Court now weighing the immunity question. The New York case has long been considered the least legally perilous of the four indictments filed against Trump last year, with the alleged misconduct - generally known to the public for years - seen by many as less grave than accusations of mishandling classified documents or plotting to subvert a presidential election. On Monday, for instance, he voluntarily attended a closed hearing in a Florida case charging him with hoarding classified records.Ī separate hearing was unfolding in Atlanta on Thursday as a judge considered arguments on whether to toss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off of the state’s election interference case because of a personal relationship with a special prosecutor she hired. The hearing was held amid a busy overlapping stretch of legal activity for the Republican presidential front-runner, who has increasingly made his court involvement part of his political campaign. Since then, he has also been indicted in Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C. Thursday marked Trump’s first return visit to court in the New York case since that historic indictment made him the first ex-president charged with a crime. In fact, Trump has repeatedly attended court proceedings where his presence was not required. “I’ll be here during the day and I’ll be campaigning during the night.” “We’ll just have to figure it out,” he added. Trump made a similar case after leaving the courtroom, telling reporters that “instead of being in South Carolina and other states campaigning, I’m stuck here,” he said. “We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom,” said defense lawyer Todd Blanche, adding that “the fact that we are now going to spend, President Trump is now going to spend, the next two months working on this trial instead of out of on the campaign trial running for president is something that should not happen in this country.”
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