The date has been set for 20 May next year by US District Judge Aileen Cannon.<\/p>\n
It is being seen as a compromise between prosecutors wanting to schedule the trial this December and a request from Trump’s lawyers to have it after the next presidential election in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Last month,\u00a0Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office and lied to officials trying to recover them.<\/p>\n Authorities say he schemed and lied to block the government from getting hold of the documents, concerning nuclear programmes and other sensitive military secrets, stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.<\/p>\n Also last month, a\u00a0recording emerged<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of Trump in July 2021, six months after his presidency ended, saying he was holding secret documents he didn’t declassify while he was commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n The two-minute recording suggested he was holding classified information about the Pentagon’s plans to attack Iran.<\/p>\n Trump is the first former US president to be charged with federal crimes.<\/p>\n It was the second courtroom visit for Trump in recent months. In April,\u00a0he pleaded not guilty<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to state charges in New York stemming from a hush-money payment to porn star\u00a0Stormy Daniels<\/strong><\/a>. He is set to face trial in Manhattan on 25 March 2024 over those charges.<\/p>\n Earlier this week,\u00a0Trump said he has received a letter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0notifying him he is a target in a US Justice Department investigation into attempts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n Such a letter often precedes an indictment and is used to advise individuals that prosecutors have gathered evidence linking them to a crime.<\/p>\n Special counsel Jack Smith has been tasked by the US Attorney General Merrick Garland with examining Trump’s role in the 6 January attack on the Capitol and his alleged mishandling of government records.<\/p>\n More than 1,000 people accused of participating in the Capitol attack have been charged.<\/p>\n Trump is currently the frontrunner in the race to become the Republican candidate for next year’s election as he plots a possible return to the White House.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Trump has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence and accuses Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration of targeting him.<\/p>\n He has called Mr Smith a “Trump hater” on social media.<\/p>\n Mr Smith accuses Trump of risking national secrets by taking sensitive papers with him when he left the White House in January 2021 and storing them in a haphazard manner at his Mar-a-Lago estate and his New Jersey golf club, according to a grand jury indictment.<\/p>\n Photos included in the indictment show boxes of documents stored on a ballroom stage, in a bathroom and strewn across a storage-room floor.<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0
\nFlorida is ‘Trump country’ and it doesn’t seem that any indictment is going to change that<\/a>
\nTrump indictment ‘shocking’ and portrays him as a ‘great threat’ to US defence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Sky](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"){kind=logo}
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