Article 6E791 Trump legal team claims trial dates ‘by design’ clash with election campaign

Trump legal team claims trial dates ‘by design’ clash with election campaign

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Ed Pilkington in New York
from US news | The Guardian on (#6E791)

Alina Habba said trials' schedules would cause them to overlap and clash with voting, preventing the ex-president from campaigning

Donald Trump's legal spokesperson has predicted that forthcoming early trial dates in the former president's four criminal cases will not hold, and that his multiple cases could clash with the final stages of the 2024 presidential election campaign and voting.

Alina Habba told the Fox News Sunday show that prosecutors' plans for fast turnarounds in Trump's two federal criminal cases and the state indictments in New York and Georgia amounted to unrealistic theatrics". She said that each of the trials would last from four to six weeks, raising the threat of overlapping schedules.

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