Trump again requests delay in Mar-a-Lago documents trial until after 2024 election

Lawyers propose pause until mid-November in trial on charges ex-president illegally retained sensitive documents at Florida club

Lawyers for Donald Trump are asking a federal judge for a second time to postpone until after the 2024 election his trial on charges that he illegally retained dozens of national defense documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and conspired to obstruct the government's repeated efforts to retrieve them.

The request, made in a 12-page court filing to US district judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday night, proposed delaying the start of the trial from May until at least mid-November - leaning into the justice department's complaint last week that Trump was trying to re-litigate" the trial date.