The legal team of donald trump has requested that the trial pending in Washington for his allegedattempt to reverse election results presidential elections will not be held until April 2026. In a petition addressed to Judge Tanya Chutkan, responsible for the criminal process, her lawyers justify this request by the large amount of material that the Prosecutor’s Office has presented as evidence.

In fact, the document includes a graph that shows the height that a tower made up of 11.5 million documents would reach compared to the Washington Monument or the Statue of Liberty. In the image, the tower of papers is equivalent to just over eight Washington monuments, “with almost a million pages to spare,” according to the former president’s lawyers. “We started downloading the initial production of the Government on August 13, 2023. Two days later, it was still being downloaded,” they maintain.

The legal team argues that, if they immediately began reading the material presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, they would have to read the equivalent of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ “78 times a day, every day” to reach the proposed start date. of jury selection.

Last week, the special prosecutor case manager, Jack Smith, requested that the trial begin on January 2, 2024a few days after the third anniversary of the storming the capitol, which Trump, precisely, is accused of encouraging. In his request, the Prosecutor’s Office estimated that the trial “will not last more than four to six weeks” and maintained that this date would give the former Republican president enough time to prepare his defense.

Trump is accused of four counts related to attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential elections, which he lost to the current president, the Democrat Joe Biden: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official procedure and conspiracy against rights.

However, this is only one of the four criminal proceedings which the tycoon is currently facing, along with the accusations in Georgiafor trying to interfere in the elections; Florida, in the case of the confidential documents that he would have taken from the White House to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago; and in NYfor the case of the alleged bribery of the porn actress Stormy Daniels.

However, the judicial tangle seems to give Trump wings to win the Republican nomination to compete in the 2024 elections, in which he hopes to face Biden again for the Presidency, and for a long time the ex-president has dominated all the polls in the conservative primaries. His legal team, meanwhile, has pursued a postponement strategy, seeking extend the processes as much as possible to take them beyond the elections of the next year.