U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday signaled that she may delay the start of Donald Trump's classified documents trial in South Florida, pointing to the former president's other criminal cases as well as the volume of evidence his lawyers have to review.
Trump's trial in the federal case, which alleges he willfully retained national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort club after leaving office and obstructed government efforts to retrieve them, is currently scheduled for May 20, 2024. But, according to The Associated Press, Cannon appeared ready to agree with Trump's attorneys' request to postpone the trial, noting that she “has a hard time seeing how realistically this (current schedule) would work” despite prosecutors' push to maintain the scheduled start date.
