The trial date for the federal case in Washington alleging Donald Trump with seeking to change the results of the 2020 election has been scheduled for March 4.
A defense plea to postpone the trial until April 2026 was denied by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. This date is nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election and is further out than the January date sought by special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
At the opening of Monday’s status conference, Chutkan made it clear to both parties that she found neither proposition acceptable.
She remarked, “The two proposals are obviously very different.” Neither one of them works.
Earlier this month, a four-count indictment claimed that Trump, a Republican, was plotting to reverse his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Trump is being charged with criminal behavior in four jurisdictions. Smith’s legal team has filed a separate federal complaint against him for allegedly holding on to confidential papers at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The trial date for the case has been scheduled for May 20 of this year.
Trump is also being sued by the states of New York and Georgia. Prosecutors in Manhattan have accused him of filing false tax returns in connection with a hush money payment to a porn actress who claims she had an extramarital affair with Trump, while in Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors have accused Trump and 18 others of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy to overturn that county’s 2020 election.
Early favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024, Trump surrendered Thursday in that case, becoming the first sitting president to appear in a mug shot. His campaign for the presidency has been attacked, he says, because of the investigations into him.
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