Judge Aileen Cannon has established that the trial of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) for the classified documents found in his Florida home begins on May 20, 2024, that is to say when they are missing just over six months for the presidential elections in this country.

Trump is a candidate for the Republican nomination with a view to being the one to face the current US president, Joe Biden, in the November general elections and his defense had asked Cannon postpone it without date until after that electoral appointment.

In a judicial document incorporated this Friday into the summary of the case, Judge Cannon also ordered that a hearing be held on May 14, 2024. to discuss the calendar and other details of the trial, which was initially scheduled to begin on August 14.

The Prosecutor’s Office had asked to delay it to December 11 and also asked Judge Cannon not to accept the defense’s proposal to leave the trial until after the electoral process was finished. Several press commentators pointed out that if Trump were to win the 2024 election without the trial having yet taken place, could maneuver to annul the process.

Trump talks about “instrumentalization”

The trial will be held in the federal courts of Fort Pierce, a city about 200 kilometers north of Miami where Cannon is a judge, for which she was precisely nominated by Trump in 2020, when he was president. She along with Trump she will sit in the dock Waltine Nautawho was his assistant in the White House and was at the service of the former president when he left the White House in January 2021.

Both, who pleaded not guilty before Judge Cannon, are charged with withholding and concealment of classified documents, in addition to other related crimes, which are punishable by jail time. Trump now faces another possible criminal prosecution for crimes related to the capture of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of his supporters who wanted to prevent the victory of current President Joe Biden from being certified after the 2020 elections.

Special counsel Jack Smith informed Trump by letter that he is the subject of an investigation for that reason that is being carried out by a grand jury meeting in Washington. Trump claims to be a victim of the “instrumentalization” of the judiciary by the Biden government to prevent him from reaching the White House again.