Prosecutors accuse Trump of new effort to delay classified documents trial
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6F59Q)
Trump weaponizing government secrecy rules to delay his trial closer to the 2024 election, prosecutors claim in filing
Special counsel prosecutors accused Donald Trump of trying to delay the classified documents case to within three months of the 2024 election in a court filing late on Wednesday, suggesting his lawyers had attempted to weaponize the complex government secrecy rules to upend the trial schedule.
The alleged delay effort from Trump - whose overarching legal strategy is to push back his criminal cases, potentially until after the election because he could have them dropped were he to win - centers on a proposal from his legal team to extend pre-trial deadlines.
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