Left: FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to mishandling classified documents (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File). Right: Judge Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington (U.S. Senate via AP).
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case in Florida has set a May 2024 trial date.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump in 2020, appears to have split the difference between the former president’s request to delay the trial until at least after the 2024 presidential election and the government’s request to hold trial in December.
“The Government’s Motion to Continue Trial and Revised Proposed Schedule 34 is GRANTED IN PART,” Cannon wrote in a docket order filed Friday. She set the trial date for Monday, May 20, 2024, with a 9:00 a.m. start time.
The trial had originally been set for Aug. 14. Federal prosecutors have requested the trial date be set no later than December.
The former president is facing a 37-count indictment for allegedly keeping classified and national defense information in various parts of the Mar-a-Lago resort that also serves as his residence. He has pleaded not guilty.
Trump, who is also facing a criminal indictment in New York and may be separately charged with election interference Georgia and for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, announced his presidential candidacy in November.
According to reports from inside the courtroom, Cannon seemed skeptical of Trump’s request to delay the trial until after the election. That hearing ended without a ruling; Cannon said that she would file a separate written order.
This is a developing story.
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